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Another sampling of items related to traveling to and through space: ** SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo Mission passes review – NASA and SpaceX held a flight readiness review (FRR) today to determine if the Falcon 9/Crew Dragon combo is ready […]...

Here is a press release from Virgin Galactic about today’s SpaceShipTwo flight to space: Virgin Galactic Makes Space for Second Time in Ten Weeks with Three On Board, Reaching Higher Altitudes and Faster Speeds, as Flight Test Program Continues...

Here is the latest episode of NASA’s weekly Space to Ground report on activities related to the International Space Station: ** A recent interview with ISS crew member Anne McClain: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 58 Flight E...

[ Updates: 12:14 pm EST: Max altitude is reportedly 294,000 feet, or 89.6 km, or 55.7 miles.

A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest: Congressional space: New House space subcommittee chair plans to address commercial space iss...

A sampling of items related to human settlements off earth: ** Cylindrical homes on Mars created via 3D printing from local materials have made the AI SpaceFactory team a finalist in NASA’s 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge competition to design vi...

I’ve posted a couple of times about the  HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System for capturing weather satellite images: Build a low cost system to receive images from GOES weather satellites Improving GOES weather satellite imaging with low cost home g...

A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images related to space related sciences: ** Mars weather reports – Daily Mars weather reports are now available from the Insight lander, which has activated its temperature and wind sensors – In...

As often reported here, citizen scientists, especially in astronomy, continue to make significant contributions to the sciences.

[ Update Feb.20: The test flight has been postponed due to weather issues: Our test flight window opened this morning, but the Mojave weather isn’t cooperating.