Japanese Entrepreneur, Yusaku Maezawa will be the first commercial passenger to attempt a flyby around the Moon. He will fly onboard a SpaceX BFR rocket, which is currently in development. It is the next-generation reusable launch vehicle developed by SpaceX. It is a supersized rocket and spacecraft designed for transportation of people and cargo to […]

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To meet the White House mandate to set the data free, The Open Innovation team @ NASA enables users, access to data in a format that is useful. In doing so, they hope to spark your creative juices and equip you with tools to innovate your world – whether local, global, or interstellar – leveraging […]

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This post is a direct lift from Nasa Photojournal. This graphic shows the orbits of all the known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs), numbering over 1,400 as of early 2013. These are the asteroids considered hazardous because they are fairly large (at least 460 feet or 140 meters in size), and because they follow orbits that […]

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As part of India’s Independence day speech, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that India has palnned it’s own ambitious mission to Mars. The Rs. 450 crore(80 Million USD) Mars Orbiter Mission is expected to be launched in November 2013 with a 25 kg scientific payload. This missions tentative scientific objective is studying the climate, geology, […]

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