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Behold! You are looking at the First direct image of another “solar system”

Um, no. It's just really, really, REALLY frigging hard to get into space. As Robert Heinlein famously said, "Getting from the Earth to orbit is halfway to anywhere." In essence, for the same energy required just to get a spacecraft into orbit around Earth, you could send a spacecraft out on a...

https://www.space.com/chile-peppers-grow-international-space-station Chile peppers... IN SPAAAACE!

The perfect cover for a gigantic laser-armed dreadnought!

They did it!

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/environmentalists-cheer-faa-blocking-of-starship-test-flight/ Because they don't want us to escape their "paradise".

It is actually a thing we can do right now. https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/942120/

https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-2020-tested-vacuum-chamber.html

https://www.space.com/german-erosita-x-ray-telescope-first-images.html

https://www.space.com/32252-amazing-images.html

At this point the only way in hell we're getting back to the Moon by 2024 is NASA biting the bullet to ask SpaceX for a ride.

NASA Buying Ten SLS Rocket Launches Through 2035 in a Show of Washington Corruption – NextBigFuture.com ... Yup, pretty much. Should have ditched the SLS sooner and gone for an actual, workable plan with the Shuttle hardware. Or just made a human-rated version of the Atlas rocket.

https://www.space.com/trump-hails-first-all-woman-spacewalk.html

And maybe we're getting closer to having more places to go than just within our own solar system: Physicists Just Released Step-by-Step Instructions for Building a Wormhole Traversable Asymptotically Flat Wormholes with Short Transit Times

The Roscosmos Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft, which is carrying supplies and a humanoid robot called Skybot F-850, was on its final approach to the space station when its automated docking system failed to lock on to its intended docking port: a space-facing module called Poisk. Cosmonaut Alexey...

I really hope I'm not the only one posting. https://www.space.com/soyuz-aborts-space-station-docking-ms-14.html I'm sure there's nothing to worry about in a situation where a spacecraft carrying a humanoid robot abruptly aborts a docking. What could go wrong putting a Russian killbot on a...

NASA Rehearses Astronaut Launch — and Rescue — with SpaceX, Boeing (Photos) Also good news.

Same. On the plus side, Elon Musk may just decide to skip ahead and get to Mars first.

What it says on the tin: Post about cool stuff in space technology advancement, news in space, and cool images from/of/for space. And to start: https://www.space.com/nuclear-reactor-for-mars-outpost-2022.html An image from Space That Never Was. And finally: A NASA documentary on the...