Aviation

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully launched the first of many regular crew and supplies launches to the International Space Station on Sunday. 3 NASA astronauts were joined by 1 Japanese…

In another milestone for the private commercial space industry, NASA has officially approved the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket as certified for human space flight. This is…

3 NASA astronauts and a Japanese astronaut have arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral ahead of next week’s 2nd human flight aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The…

A 9 year old boy in Malaysia has won a NASA “space toilet” competition, beating out 900 other contestants. The challenge was to come up with a toilet that could…

In more commercial space travel news, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic will make its maiden flight from New Mexico’s Spaceport America hub. The flight will be Virgin Galactic’s first revenue generating…

As they say, “Imitation is the greatest form of flattery”. Rocket Lab, a re-usable rocket startup based in New Zealand will attempt to recover one of it’s Electron boosters on…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced a launch window for the 15km hop test for the Starship SN8! Weather permitting, Monday November 9th, 2020 should be a spectacular show! More here:…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has just completed a milestone 100 launches of its reusable Falcon 9 rocket on October 24th! Not only is it great for business (cost savings of millions…

Based upon research from the 2013 X-51A Waverider tests, a new hypersonic U.S. plane is planned for flight in 2023 at speeds five times the speed of sound! DARPA, the…

A grad student from the UK’s Royal College of Art, has devised a synthetic leaf that uses photosynthesis to create oxygen as real plants do on earth. The invention may…

In its move into the private jet business, Honda has conducted its first maiden flight of its HondaJet near its world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. The $4.5 milllion…

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA has announced the test launch of its saucer shaped Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle. The test flight at U.S. Navy’s Pacific…

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has been approved for flights by the Federal Aviation Administration in the U.S. Virgin Galactic plans to have maiden flights of its Space Ship Two to…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced the Dragon V2, the first commercial manned reusable spacecraft. Designed to land vertically back down to Earth, the 7 seater spaceship can be refueled and…

Researchers from the Technische Universität München and the TU Berlin in Germany have developed a technology to fly a plane with thoughts alone. Using a cap outfitted with EEG electrodes…

An Iron man type jetpack demo was performed at the Smithsonian Future Is Here Festival on Saturday. The jetpack works by mixing hydrogen peroxide and nitrogen gas with a silver…