Blue Origin Picked for Second Artemis Lunar Lander Provider
May 19th, 2023: Congratulations to Blue Origin on being selected by NASA as the second Artemis lunar lander provider! NASA previously awarded SpaceX the contract to build the commercial human lander as part of the Artemis III mission. The contract awarded to [...]
Starship Launch
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 [...]
Relativity Space Terran 1 Milestone
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 [...]
Women’s History Month 2023
March 17, 2023: Women's History Month serves as a reminder to highlight the accomplishments of women, past and present. Since the very beginning, women have been involved in aerospace: NASA's "human computers" in the early to mid 1900s consisted mostly [...]
Pi(e) Day 2023
March 14, 2023 – What would an aerospace company be without celebrating π day? True to form, we had at least a dozen pies in both of our office locations. Not all of them are visible in the Houston pictures – [...]
SpaceX Crew-4, 5, and 6
March 11, 2023: SpaceX is on a roll! After the success of the first three Crew flights, SpaceX reaffirms its commitment to reusing boosters and capsules. Crew-4 launched and docked on April 27th, 2022. While the mission featured the first [...]