The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is planning another major flight trial involving multiple targets and multiple interceptors to increasingly challenge its young missile defense shield’s ability to handle “raids,” or multiple threats launched simultaneously. The Pentagon’s interceptors downed four of five threats in the first such trial, which took place Oct. 25. MDA officials […]
Space
The North Koreans launched a ballistic missile Wednesday and that rocket reportedly carried a satellite into orbit and successfully landed in a targeted splash down area. For years the North Koreans have unsuccessfully launched ballistic missiles and drawing the ire of the international community, especially U.S. and Japanese leaders. In every other missile test, the […]
President Nixon’s speech writer wrote a speech in case Neil Armstrong and the rest of the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission died on the moon, or in space. The text came to light back in 1999, but it’s a fascinating read following Armstrong’s death Saturday. Landing a man on the moon and then bringing […]
We’ve all seen the pics from the Air Force’s X-37B secret shuttle’s return to Earth after a record-breaking 469 days in space Saturday morning. Now e’ve got some great thermal video of the robo-shuttle, officially known as X-3&B Orbital Test Vehicle-2 (OTV-2), landing just after Sunrise last week at Vandenburg Air Force Base on the […]
Let’s celebrate Memorial Day weekend a little bit early with this incredible late afternoon picture of a 14-mile wide crater on Mars that was just beamed back to NASA by the Mars Rover, Opportunity — which has been on Mars for a loooooong time; like, since 2004. That’s nearly 3,000 Martian-days, according to NASA. Yes, […]
