‘Mars’ follows a crew of international astronauts on humanity’s first manned mission to Mars and combines it with some of the groundbreaking work that is actually being done in real life to lay the foundation for our eventual journey to Mars.
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2016 wasn’t all bad. Here are some of the moments that made us here at GeekDad and GeekMom happy. What helped us make it through the year, brought us joy, and made us smile?
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Watch the latest launch from SpaceX live online at 1:15pm PDT today!
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NASA granted contracts to two companies for manned spaceflights to and from the International Space Station.
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SpaceX, the private space transport company founded and run by Elon Musk, has made yet another advance: rockets that not only don’t burn up in the atmosphere on the way down, but are actually capable of landing vertically on the exact spot from which they took off.
Continue ReadingThis week SpaceX became the first US commercial company to deliver cargo to ISS and became the world’s leader in returning cargo back to Earth from space.
Continue ReadingWe’ve got good news for kids still dreaming of being an astronaut: NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) as one of three vendors to test ships that will transport American Astronauts bak into “space,” or at least into low …
Continue ReadingStartup rocket company Space Exploration Technologies (we all know them as SpaceX) is set to launch their Dragon capsule to the International Space Station early in the morning (3:44am EDT!) on Tuesday. SpaceX will be webcasting the launch on their …
Continue ReadingWelcome to the GeekDad Space Report for the week of June 7, 2010! We had a busy week of launches last week and all of them, with the exception of the Cartosat-2B successfully made it to orbit. The Cartosat-2B launch …
Continue ReadingThere are only five Space Shuttle flights left on NASA’s schedule. Since 1982, astronauts have traveled into low-Earth orbit aboard the workhorse of NASA’s space program. With the exception of the Hubble repair mission earlier this year, the remaining flights …
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