http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/space race http://io9.com/tag/space race

Here's a fiery portrait of India's second failed launch of 2010. The GSAT-5P, launching a new geosynchronous communications satellite, broke up in the first stage and exploded. How did this happen? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5718666&view=rss&microfeed=true

Floridians have eleven more days to see the space shuttle Discovery on a launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center. On November 1, Discovery will blast off for the last time. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5643917&view=rss&microfeed=true

Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney just paid a pretty penny for the new space race screenplay from Bruckheimer's usual writers. Which means we're due for a epic space film that may not be groundbreaking, but by god it will be entertaining. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5547459&view=rss&microfeed=true

Over at Berg London, Megan Prelinger has an amazing essay about the design of advertisements for defense industry companies during the mid-twentieth century space race. Interestingly, socialist-inspired designs were used to advertise anti-commie missile systems. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5416528&view=rss&microfeed=true The good news is, Italian physicists think it's possible we could travel faster than light by creating a kind of "warp drive," encasing a spaceship in a bubble and warping space, so that space itself travels faster than the speed of light. And the spaceship, safe in its bubble, could "surf" that wave of space. The bad news? The warp drive could turn into a black hole that would incinerate the ship, and suck Earth inside. That's according to physicist Stefano Finazzi of Italy's International School For Advanced Studies: More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5288860&view=rss&microfeed=true

NASA is running a contest to name the new "Node 3" of the International Space Station, and Serenity is in the lead! Node 3 will allow several more people to live full-time in space. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5164695&view=rss&microfeed=true

On Sunday, the Chinese space program announced that their satellite, Chang'e-I, ended its 16 month mapping mission with a planned crash on the lunar surface, destroying the craft. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5162932&view=rss&microfeed=true

India has officially landed on the moon. Today, the Indian Space Research Organisation advanced its first deep space mission, Chandrayaan-1, by releasing its Moon Impact Probe, which successfully crash landed near the moon’s south pole and opened an exciting new chapter in Asia’s space exploration. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5087717&view=rss&microfeed=true

We're finally getting a new space race — between China and India, which just launched its new Moon probe, Chandrayaan-1, today. China already launched its Chang'e orbiter last year, and "today we are trying to catch them, catch that gap, bridge the gap," the director of India's space agency told Reuters. But that doesn't mean NASA is out of the picture altogether — India's rocket is carrying a couple of devices for the U.S. agency, including one to look for ice deposits in the moon's polar region. And NASA plans to launch its own orbiter next year. Click through for another couple of images of the gorgeous Chandrayaan-1. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5066822&view=rss&microfeed=true

At least two things happened last week in the worlds of science fiction and science. One was cool and the other was crap. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5018447&view=rss&microfeed=true

I love the industrial animation used in this newsreel introducing Americans to Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviets on October 4, 1957. Despite fears of red space supremacy, Americans immediately started eating sputnikburgers and talking about pupniks (Sputnik II carried a dog into space), whatniks, beatniks, and spoofniks ... but I digress. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=385678&view=rss&microfeed=true

Three cartoon cosmonauts (one of them a woman) celebrate their lunar landing in this Soviet-era postcard. The fact that the Russkis have yet to walk on the moon makes it all the more adorable. Click through for a closer look. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=380115&view=rss&microfeed=true

China plans to launch 15 rockets, 17 satellites and a crewed spaceship during 2008. But that's not going to be enough to scare the United States into launching a new space race. And the U.S. really, really needs a new space race to get us to take space exploration seriously again. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=346927&view=rss&microfeed=true

There are more robot space probes now than any other time in history, says MSNBC. Blame the new space race: Europe, Japan, China, India, Canada and South Korea have all launched probes, or will soon. A gallery of this international flotilla, after the jump. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338346&view=rss&microfeed=true

By the early 1980s, the Soviet Union will have a fleet of space shuttles far superior to our own, plus a network of space stations and a second fleet of orbital vehicles to service them. Oh, and mega laser weapons. That was the prediction in a 1974 book Soviet Conquest From Space. How did Peter James get it so wrong? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=323256&view=rss&microfeed=true

What will it take to launch another space age to replace the one that ended with the Cold War? Maybe another space race. China is ramping up its efforts to put people back on the Moon, launch more lunar orbiters, and build its own space station. Already, China is challenging the U.S.' domination of space launches. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=322740&view=rss&microfeed=true