by Amelie Belfiore | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog
Blue Origin and the Heart of Gold are two very similar, yet very different plans. Elon Musk’s plan, is more of an idea. It’s very ambious, and it would take years. Blue Origin is happening now. Blue Origin is trying to send six people more than 62.1371 miles (100...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
On Tuesday in Guadalajara, Mexico, at the 67th International Aeronautical Congress, SpaceX chief Elon Musk unveiled his plans for colonizing Mars. “If we can get the cost of moving to Mars to be roughly equivalent to a median house price in the U.S., which is...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 24, 2015 | Blog
Yesterday at Blue Origin’s West Texas proving grounds, the company’s New Shepard spacecraft launched to an altitude of 329,839 feet, almost 2,000 feet past the international accepted boundary of space, and returned to Earth to complete a “flawless...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 17, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Yesterday at a press conference in the Flatiron district in NYC, I and a few other journalists were treated to a showing and presentation of some spectacular video footage of the Earth from space by UrtheCast. From my report for Popular Mechanics, published today:...
by Michael Belfiore | May 6, 2015 | Articles
This morning at about 9 a.m. Eastern Time, SpaceX launched the crew version of its Dragon space capsule for the first time. The capsule launched from a pad at Cape Canaveral using its onboard Super Drago rocket engines. The flight only lasted a minute and half, during...
