January 21, 2025: Snow is very uncommon in Houston, but this past Tuesday was one of those rare opportunities to build a snowman out of actual snow rather than the soap foam that is sometimes used as a substitute! With snow falling for [...]
April 8th, 2024: It was an exciting day for many Odyssians! The total solar eclipse dazzled many of us located in Texas, since the path of totality was only a couple hours drive away from our Houston office. A few Colorado-based Odyssians [...]
September 24th, 2023: The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launched over 7 years ago in September 2016. After spending several years in close proximity to the asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-REx touched down on the surface and began collecting samples from the celestial object. Bennu was chosen [...]
July 14, 2023 – Boulder, CO – Three engineers donned their Odyssey t-shirts, life jackets, tubes, and helmets in an unconventional commute down Boulder Creek to the office. Along with a few hundred others, they floated down the river as part of [...]
June 7, 2023 - Cape Canaveral, FL - United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket conducted a successful hotfire test of its BE-4 engines at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The engines, built by Blue Origin, ignited for 6 seconds in a successful [...]
April 20, 2023: Liftoff! SpaceX conducted the first orbital flight test of Starship. It is a rocket of superlatives, dwarfing both the iconic Saturn V and the SLS in terms of thrust, payload capacity, and size. While some commentators in popular media [...]
