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 [...]
April 8, 2023 - Houston, TX - The annual NASA chili cookoff in Houston saw top chefs from around the area come together to showcase their culinary creations. Among the talented competitors was Odyssey Spice Research, a team of six cooks who [...]
On March 23rd, 2023, Relativity Space successfully launched its Terran 1 rocket. Despite suffering an early engine cutoff after Max-Q and second stage separation, this mission still marks a major milestone for the company and the commercial space industry as a whole. [...]
