Two November Thirteenths Seven years apart, both on 13 November. First Orbit of Another World Stardate 556.9938 (NOVEMBER 13, 1971) On this day in 1971, Mariner 9 fired its engine and became the first

Relativity Space started as the company that would 3D print whole rockets. Its first rocket reached space on its only flight. Then it changed almost everything. Image: Relativity Space Tim Ellis (ex-Blue

KiwiThinker's log, stardate 3449.5976. 🌌 "Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just

Three November Twelfths Three moments, all on 12 November, from 1981 to 2014. Columbia flies again Stardate 1082.8269 (NOVEMBER 12, 1981) On the morning of 12 November 1981, Columbia rose from Pad 39A

KiwiThinker's log, supplemental - stardate 3449.4242 🌌 Astronauts wear nappies during launch and landing because there's no bathroom break. #Q1Ls Enjoyed these space one-liners? The Fun Space Quotes 2027

Today in Space History - Columbia's Working Morning 🚀 Stardate 1135.2259 (NOVEMBER 11, 1982) Columbia left Pad 39A at 7:19 in the morning, Eastern time, on 11 November 1982. Four astronauts rode her:

Starship Mars 2026 Mission: Expendable Chance: 85% (no change) Commitment Level: 1% (-24%) Final update, Week 46, in the series tracking odds of at least one uncrewed Starship heading to Mars in the late-2026

Blue Origin is the oldest company in this series, and by far the best funded. Yet its big orbital rocket, New Glenn, has flown just three times. Jeff Bezos founded it in 2000. It is based in Kent, Washington,

Two November Tenths Five years apart, both on 10 November. The Whole Earth, in Color Stardate 346.1251 (NOVEMBER 10, 1967) From geostationary height, ATS-3 turned its multicolor spin-scan camera toward

KiwiThinker's log, stardate 3449.1054. 🌌 "The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually,

Three November Ninths Fifty-nine years apart, all on 9 November. The Saturn V Finds Its Voice Stardate 345.9600 (NOVEMBER 9, 1967) Before dawn on the Florida coast the first Saturn V stood ready on a pad

On Saturday 7 Nov (Texas time) she rolled out of Megabay 2 and into Starbase's new Gigabay. She's the first vehicle ever inside that building, and the first in a Gigabay at Starbase or in Florida. She'd

Classic Cosmos In this mid-infrared view from Webb's MIRI, the Cat's Head Nebula resembles a cat sitting with its back toward the viewer and a tail extending downward. It is a dust pillar in the Carina

KiwiThinker's log, supplemental - stardate 3448.9167 🌌 The Sun will eventually become a white dwarf - a stellar ember the size of Earth. #Q1Ls Enjoyed these space one-liners? The Fun Space Quotes 2027

Two November Eighths Thirty-nine years apart, both on 8 November. Germany's first craft Stardate 451.0192 (NOVEMBER 8, 1969) Before dawn in Europe, a Scout rocket rose from Vandenberg with Azur aboard.

🚀 Spacefarer Update 🚀 Number of people currently in space: 10 Comings and Goings This Week There have been no arrivals or departures this week. Current Space Occupants ISS Expedition 75: 7 spacefarers

Today in Space History - The First Escape 🚀 Stardate 135.3120 (NOVEMBER 7, 1963) On a clear morning at White Sands, a boilerplate Apollo capsule waited on the desert floor with a launch escape tower above

KiwiThinker's log, stardate 3448.6950. 🌌 "Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the

Most rocket companies try to get you to orbit. Impulse Space starts after that. Tom Mueller founded it in 2021, a few months after leaving SpaceX. He was SpaceX employee number one on the propulsion side

X-70 Fractal takes wing, Hubble gets a commercial lifeline call, and 26 years of ISS mark the LEO pivot. X-70 Fractal takes wing On November 5, NASA unveiled the X-70 Fractal, its newest crewed experimental