Following the successful testing and regular flights of Space X’s “Crew Dragon” and continuing test work on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner, a fleet of new spacecraft will be entering service during the 2020’s to replace the current NASA/ESA reliance on the venerable Russian Soyuz spacecraft for Earth-orbit operations.  However, traditional cone-shaped capsules rely on parachutes […]

Updated January 2024 New spacecraft are coming into service that will reduce the cost of access to space for aspiring astronauts and the world’s space agencies are taking on new astronauts to work on the International Space Station (ISS) and perhaps one day travel to the Moon and on to Mars. Very few people have