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From left, Author James Oberg in front of control panels, the April 12, 1981 launch of Columbia, May 2020 photograph of SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft on the launch pad.
AerospaceTopicTypeNews

What It’s Like to Sweat the Launch of a New Spaceship

A former mission controller remembers the last time the United States dared to put humans in a new type of spacecraft—and some hard-won lessons for today

5 min read
Image of a plant testbed.
AerospaceTopicTypeNews

A Software Update Will Instruct Space Tomatoes to Sprout

For humans, a trip to the Red Planet would be much improved with a certain red fruit

5 min read
Photograph showing the Archinaut entering a Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVAC).
AerospaceTopicTypeGuest Article

Made In Space Blends Manufacturing and Robotics to Build on Orbit

In a few years, it will be possible to launch a satellite that makes its own (much more efficient) solar array on orbit

4 min read
A Soyuz-FG rocket booster blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague prior to failure.
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Getting Back to the Space Station

After an aborted Soyuz mission to the International Space Station, how long it will take to resume flights there? Will NASA's Commercial Crew Program have to come to the rescue?

3 min read

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