Various Consequences

Missiles and Rockets was a magazine that ran from the mid 1950's to the mid 1960's at the height of the Space Race. All the issue...

Some interesting aerodynamics & control details on the re-design required for the Falcon Heavy at 15:20 or so. Great launch!

As part of a broader effort looking at impediments to launch services procurement, the GAO summarized US government-wide budget requests for...

As reported by NBC there is a petition on WhiteHouse.gov to rapidly develop and deploy a nuclear thermal rocket for both manned & un-m...

Congratulations to SpaceX on their successful launch of the first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station!

Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2 in New Mexico Interactive Panorama

As reported on ParabolicArc , NASA awarded SpaceX a contract to launch one of their science payloads . The topic of NASA's assessment of...

Successful launch of the Falcon 9/Dragon to the International Space Station for COTS demo flight 2. Lots of coverage on Parabolic Arc an...

SpaceX has a neat internal panorama up of their Dragon space capsule. SpaceX Dragon capsule, internal iso/orthogrid panels and grid st...

I thought the intermittent splashing of the cooling water/steam in the close-up portion of this J2-X engine test video looked interesting. ...

This isn't about the normal death spiral of increasing unit costs driving production cuts, which increases unit costs, which drives prod...

Falcon 9 launch successful on first test flight.  Wow! First Stage In Flight Successful Stage Separation Second Stage Burn Yeah, yeah, it...

Photo credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now SpaceX has a hangar full of rocket at the Cape. The latest rumors are that the new NASA budget ...

These interesting articles were collected in my daily AIAA news brief. White House Reportedly Will Fund Commercial Spaceflight. The...

With the upcoming test flight of the Ares IX , there is lots of talk about high vibration levels and design problems with the big solid firs...

The technical people [must] keep their hands dirty and actively work on in-house projects selected specifically for the purpose of updating ...

Or "how to retain your critical thinking skills while being PowerPointed to death". I recently wrote about PowerPoint Engineering ...

The latest news about the new NASA Constellation program indicates that they are having cost and schedule problems , this is no surprise, e...