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The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crashed after the vehicle’s tail stabilizers deployed prematurely. The

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SpaceShipTwo Crashes in Mojave Desert; One Dead [UPDATED]

October 31, 2014 Jason P. Hunt 777 Views 0 Comments Sir Richard Branson, Space, SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic

[twitter-follow screen_name=’scifi4me’] Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has crashed in the Mojave Desert on October 31. The craft was undergoing a powered

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NASA Gets Back in the Space Race

September 18, 2014 Jason P. Hunt 734 Views 0 Comments Boeing, International Space Station, NASA, Space, space exploration, SpaceX

In a press release dated September 16, NASA has announced that American astronauts will once again (finally) be traveling to

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SpaceX Rocket Explodes

August 23, 2014 Jason P. Hunt 953 Views 0 Comments Elon Musk, Falcon 9, rocket, Space, spaceflight, SpaceX

Three engine F9R Dev1 vehicle auto-terminated during test flight. No injuries or near injuries. Rockets are tricky … — Elon

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Gravity 101 – Rocket Science

July 22, 2014 Blaise Lapinski 1049 Views 1 Comment gravity, math, orbital mechanics, physics, Rant, rocket science, SPACE, Space

` I’ve decided to stop numbering these articles and start referring to specific topics. My primary reason for this change

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I Want My Warp Drive and I Want it Now!

June 28, 2014 Blaise Lapinski 922 Views 0 Comments Rant, replicator, Space, Space Travel, Star Trek, starship, warp drive

I ran across some interesting news recently proclaiming the design of a Warp Drive Starship as a work in

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Gravity 101 Part III

June 9, 2014 Blaise Lapinski 887 Views 0 Comments gravity, math, orbital mechanics, physics, Rant, Space, SPACE

Part III already, how time flies. In the previous articles (Part I and Part II) we learned about being in orbit

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WEEK IN REVIEW June 1, 2014

June 2, 2014 Jason P. Hunt 978 Views 0 Comments Blizzard/Activision, Carrie Fisher, casting, DreamWorks Animation, Dreamworks Dragons: The Series, graphic novels, ISEE-3, Lucasfilm, Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, NASA, Netflix, Rumor, Scarlett Johansson, Space, SpaceX, Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode VII, Virgin Galactic, Week in Review

It’s back! Week in Review returns with quite a bit of news: This week: ~ Carrie Fisher talks Episode

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Gravity 101 Part II

May 12, 2014 Blaise Lapinski 1008 Views 0 Comments gravity, math, orbital mechanics, physics, Rant, SPACE, Space

In the previous article, we looked at what it means for an object to be in orbit; in this article,

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Gravity 101 Part I

April 29, 2014 Blaise Lapinski 909 Views 1 Comment gravity, math, orbital mechanics, physics, SPACE, Space

In both science fiction and the daily news, we are bombarded with talk about various objects in orbit around the

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It Should Be The "REEL" History of Sci-Fi, BBC

April 28, 2014 Jason P. Hunt 951 Views 0 Comments 2001: A Space Odyssey, alien, Arthur C. Clarke, BBC America, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, Rant, Real History of Science Fiction, Space, Stanley Kubrick, Star Trek, Star Wars, TV Recaps, Ursula K. Le Guin

Part Two: “Space” OK. Yes. Star Trek changed science fiction on television. Star Wars changed movies forever. Tell us something

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Rail Guns and You

April 22, 2014 Blaise Lapinski 911 Views 0 Comments physics, railguns, Rant, Space, US Navy

The United States Navy recently announced the unveiling of their prototype rail gun to the public (see here) coming this