Image courtesy of StarWars.com With the franchise back in full swing and new movies scheduled to drop yearly, we’ve been spending a lot more days with Star Wars on our minds lately. But even though there isn’t currently a new...
Photo via NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/University of Arizona Speculation has been rampant for years that what appear to be gullies on features on the surface of Mars are caused by liquid water. Now research published in Nature Geosciences confirms...
For an engine to take humans to Mars, it would need to be powerful – very, very powerful. And NASA might just have found its engine with that sort of "oomph". The RS-25 engine will hopefully one day be the...
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that we here at the OWC Blog have a particular fascination with rockets. We named it the Rocket Yard, after all! And there’s one recent rocket mission that has especially caught our glued-to-the-sky eyes. Elon...
You may already know about NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which took its first flight test Friday. While the initial test was a big step, Orion has even bigger plans for future missions – the spacecraft is designed to eventually take astronauts...
After ten years and billions of miles of travel, the Philae lander parted today from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft and landed on the surface of a comet. Philae landed on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 11 a.m. EST, marking the first...
