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Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2024 - Space travel is complex, expensive, and risky. Great sums and valuable payloads are on the line every time one spacecraft docks with another. One slip and a billion-dollar mission could be lost. Aer

Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2024 - Space travel is complex, expensive, and risky. Great sums and valuable payloads are on the line every time one spacecraft docks with another. One slip and a billion-dollar mission could be lost. Aer

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2023 - Scientific Systems, renowned for its autonomous system solutions, has clinched a $1.5 million Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract from SpaceWERX, as part of the latters Orbi

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2023 - Scientific Systems, renowned for its autonomous system solutions, has clinched a $1.5 million Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract from SpaceWERX, as part of the latters Orbi

Today in History, 15 July:  In 1994, as the Rwandan Genocide neared its end, hundreds of thousands of Hutus fled to neighbouring Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). This mass exodus marked a tragic chapter in the aftermath of the

NASA asked commercial providers to find a way to boost Hubble’s orbit, and now Momentus Space and Astroscale have offered a solution.

A wrinkle on distance learning: Students build spacecraft from home Stanford is shipping free satellite kits to some 30 students of astronautical engineering. Their assignment: Build, program and test their own CubeSats. A wrinkle on distance learning: Students build spacecraft from home January 4, 2021 By Edmund L. Andrews The kits come with programmable chips, plus a ground station that serves as mission control. | Courtesy Students at Stanford Engineering are about to start building and te...

>> you look beautiful. >> i feel like a million dollars. >> there was absolutely no sensation of falling. there was very little sensation of speed, other than the same type of sensation that we had in the capsule. i think as i stepped out i thought the biggest thing was a feeling of accomplishment of one of the goals of the gem ni 4 mission. >> the next major breakthrough will be the bringing together of two orbiting craft. the russians have made one test in their program and presumably have lea...

Behind. >> ignition. >> the primary goal of project gemini was to perform space rendezvous. without that, no moon mission. >> with the lunar technique with the command modular, you have to bring the two vehicles together and to get them close in such a way, it was easy to dock them. took a fair bit of work. >> flying nose to nose, very clearly see the rising scanners up there. >> roger. >> that was the moment when we pulled ahead to the space race. that was something the russians hadnt even come...

>> the primary goal of project gemini was to perform space rendezvous. without that, no moon mission. >> with lunar orbit rendezvous technique, where the lunar module flew back up, rendezvoused with the command module, you have to bring these two vehicles together and get them close in such a way that it was easy to dock them. took a fair bit of work. >> flying nose to nose, we can very clearly see the rising scanners up there. >> roger. >> that was the moment when we pulled ahead in the space r...