In taking off from ground eighteen hours earlier, Masney and Kzanol/Greenberg had broken twelve separate local laws, five supranational regulations and a treaty with the Belt. From WORLD OF PTAVVS by Larry Niven (1966) Ship Docks Yes, I think it is hilariously ridiculous as well. Ship ...
150 kg). It is a two-stage rocket that at stands 230 feet (70 meters) tall and is 12 feet (3.7 m) wide.SpaceX first advertised plans for the Falcon 9in 2005 and sent the debut Falcon 9 aloft on June 7, 2010, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida....
Cape Dread really starts taking off about 2058. Somewhere along the line it becomes lucrative enough that SpaceX or somebody starts up a LEO-Cape Dread passenger service. Or it may be incidental on the cargo transit. You don't want the cargo ships returning to Cape Dread to be empty, ...
NASA billed it as asteroid autumn. In September, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft delivered a batch of rubble collected from asteroid Bennu. A couple weeks later, the Psyche spacecraft blasted off on a six-year cruise to a metal-rich asteroid bearing the same name. Then in Novemb...
A rendering of what Relativity Space’s rocket will look like, launching from LC-16. Image: Relativity Space America’s busiest spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is about to get a new tenant: a startup that shares SpaceX’s ambitious plans of turning humans into a multiplanet...
Falcon 9 is operated from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and a launch site exclusively constructed and used by SpaceX, Boca Chica in Texas. The use of three launch sites allows Falcon 9 to target all...
Falcon 9 is operated from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and a launch site exclusively constructed and used by SpaceX, Boca Chica in Texas. The use of three launch sites allows Falcon 9 to target all...
Two cosmonauts stepped off a bus at the Baikonur Cosmodrome — the Soviet Cape Canaveral — ready to ride a 10-story Soyuz rocket into orbit. This launch complex in the heart of Kazakhstan had sent the first satellite, animal and human (Sputnik, Laika and Yuri Gagarin) into space. It was...
Point Nemo is relatively lifeless; its location within the South Pacific Gyre blocks nutrients from reaching the area, and being so far from land it gets little nutrient run-off from coastal waters.From the Wikipedia entry for POLE OF INACCESSIBILITY ...
Directly in front of him was the huge radar scanner, and to one side and overhead was a tube mounted on a swivel joint that looked like a small telescope, but which was actually an astrogation prism for taking sights on the celestial bodies in space. From STAND BY FOR MARS by Carey ...