Recent content by dsnyrocketengine

China has clearly established themselves as a force in space; in fact if it weren't for those private U.S. space companies they would probably be the undisputed #1 country in space research right now.

thank goodness for Space X , Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada and others! they are keeping us in the space race, meanwhile has anyone seen or heard from nasa?

by the time Orion finally gets off the ground, they'll probably have to wheel'em aboard!

True, Even though I'm looking forward to seeing SLS launch , in some ways its obsolete even before it gets off the ground since SpaceX, Virgin Galactic ,Blue Origins and others are so much more innovative reusable rockets are the way to go cost wise.

Who else is on the crew?

is he riding up on the New Shepard or is he just gonna beam up after they reach apogee?

its hard to argue with flat earthers and moon landing deniers -they want to believe this stuff and nothing; even proven facts ,pics and other hard evidence will convince them otherwise .Its best to just let them live in their own little worlds until their alien parents come to pick them up.

sudden depressurization would most likely be one on the list-actually believe this has happened to a crew aboard the space station Mir when a robotic cargo ship collided with the station causing sudden depressurization to one of the station's modules. The crew would have to retreat into a...

there have been several designs for a space vehicle which would be able to take off like an airplane and fly directly into space without the assistance of a rocket booster this concept is know by some as a "single stage to orbit" However apparently no one has so far produced an engine capable...

I guess it would depend on the mission and the type of vehicle involved The Apollo moon landing missions were a crew of 3 a Commander ,a CSM pilot and a LEM pilot. During the shuttle era a typical crew consisted of a Commander, a pilot, two mission specialist and anywhere from 1-4 "Payload...

Yes but hasn't it always been that way with human expansion? How many people perished on the Mayflower crossing the ocean to the "new world" but they still kept coming, how many died during westward expansion in coved wagons? but they still continued going west- space, the final frontier, is...

the decision to limit the first astronaut selections to military test pilots was taken by the Eisenhower administration to avoid having varies different people such as circus performers and daredevils applying to be spacefarers. However the Soviets did not have that requirement and many of...

I doubt a title would mean too much to these folks; its more the thrill of going up there and experiencing weightlessness and the other sensations of spaceflight that they do this for, besides no one calls passengers on an airliner pilots so it is with commercial spaceflight.

Bezos, Branson, Musk.........say what you will, but these guys get things done. They actually do what they say they're going to do and for the most part they do it with private funds which is alot more than I can say for most politicians.

so now two records will be broken on the New Shepard flight Gerhman Titov has held the record for youngest space traveler since 1961 and John Glenn the oldest since 1998 but like they say in the sports world "records were made to be broken" Good luck to the Blue Origin flight crew!