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Get the latest news, articles and videos on space news, astronomy, space exploration, the space industry, NASA, our solar system and the universe from GeekWire contributing editor Alan Boyle.

Shane Kimbrough on International Space Station

Thanksgiving in space: A full day of work, then turkey from a pouch (and football)

The two Americans aboard the International Space Station won’t be getting Thanksgiving Day off, but they will be getting NASA’s… Read More

GOES-R launch on Atlas 5

Doubleheader in space! Trio arrives at space station, weather satellite lifts off

NASA and its space partners juggled an arrival and a departure today: First, three new crew members docked with the International… Read More

Blue Origin's EDM machine at work

Billionaire Jeff Bezos gets all geeky over Blue Origin’s robotic rocket drilling machine

Building a rocket ship may sound romantic, but there are a lot of nitty-gritty details behind the work – and that’s… Read More

Peggy Whitson

Space station trip makes NASA’s Peggy Whitson the oldest woman in space

Today’s liftoff of a Soyuz spaceship heading for the International Space Station launched NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson into the history… Read More

SpaceX and Space Needle

SpaceX files FCC application for internet access network with 4,425 satellites

SpaceX has laid out further details about a 4,425-satellite communications network that’s expected to provide global broadband internet access, with… Read More

Pluto's reorientation

How a shifting ocean caused Pluto to flip over – putting its ‘heart’ in the right place

Pluto’s famous heart-shaped feature may well have migrated over the course of millions of years as the dwarf planet spun,… Read More

Buzz Aldrin re supermoon

You’ll get a howl out of this: Supermoon turns Buzz Aldrin into American Werewolf

This week’s supermoon has been pretty much clouded out in Seattle, but it appears to have had an effect on… Read More

Project Blue kicks off $1 million crowdfunding campaign to seek out Alpha Centauri’s alien Earths

How much would you pay to find out whether Alpha Centauri’s twin suns possess blue planets like Earth? Project Blue… Read More

Chinese mountain

Spaceflight Industries unveils BlackSky satellite’s first pictures of our planet

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is sharing some of the first pictures of Earth ever taken by its low-cost, high-resolution BlackSky Pathfinder-1… Read More

This supermoon will be extra-super

The full moon is looking bigger and brighter this week than it’s looked since 1948 – and although you may not… Read More

Atlas 5 launch for Worldview-4

WorldView-4 joins DigitalGlobe’s armada of satellites keeping watch on the planet

DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite was sent into orbit today to capture high-resolution, multispectral imagery of Earth, almost two months after California’s wildfires… Read More

Daedalus crew

Here’s what Donald Trump, NASA and SpaceX need to do to get us to Mars

The “Mars” miniseries premiering on the National Geographic Channel is only the latest in a decades-long string of media projects… Read More

Shane Kimbrough on space station

Space station chief flips over Veterans Day

Shane Kimbrough may not be the highest-ranking U.S. veteran, but he’s definitely the highest, by virtue of his status as… Read More

SpaceFest panel

Sisterhood is powerful when it comes to Seattle’s commercial space scene

The billionaires who run Blue Origin and SpaceX – Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk – may be locked in an outer-space rivalry,… Read More

Apollo F-1 engine

Get an exclusive video tour of the Museum of Flight’s Apollo moon rocket artifacts

It’s been almost a year since Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos unveiled pieces of the Saturn V rocket engines that propelled… Read More

Elon Musk

Elon Musk holds forth on SolarCity, Tesla, SpaceX … and Donald Trump

Today Elon Musk laid out his views on electricity-generating solar roofs, the Tesla-SolarCity merger, SpaceX’s return to flight and artificial intelligence… Read More

Museum of Flight lets you walk on Mars in virtual reality for SpaceFest

I’ve been to Mars to kick the tires on NASA’s Curiosity rover – and you can take that trip as well.… Read More

Schiaparelli crash zone

Mars orbital image shows Schiaparelli lander’s crash site in inglorious color

High-resolution color images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the spot where the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli lander crashed – in black… Read More

Arkyd 6

Planetary Resources strikes $28 million pact with Luxembourg for asteroid mining

Planetary Resources says it has finalized a $28 million (€25 million) agreement with Luxembourg to ramp up its asteroid mining… Read More

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA shows off the James Webb Space Telescope and says it’s ready for testing

After years of busted budgets and stretched timelines, NASA says its $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope is ready for… Read More

SpaceShipTwo and White Knight Two

Winds get too wild to let Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity plane go gliding

Virgin Galactic had to scale back what it hoped would be its first free-flying test of VSS Unity, its second… Read More

Moon Express MX-1 lander

NASA puts out call for lunar experiments, and Moon Express says it’ll help pay

NASA wants suggestions for experiments that can be sent to the moon on commercial spacecraft – and Moon Express, one of the… Read More

Soyuz descent

Space station trio gets warm reception after chilly touchdown in Kazakhstan

Just a week after a fresh trio of spacefliers moved into the International Space Station, three other crew members returned to Earth… Read More

O'Neill cylinder

Where does Jeff Bezos foresee putting space colonists? Inside O’Neill cylinders

SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to settle humans on Mars. Others talk about a Moon Village. But Seattle billionaire Jeff Bezos has… Read More

New Horizons probe

New Horizons probe finishes transmitting data from Pluto flyby after 15 months

More than 15 months after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, the last bit of data captured during the… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: SpaceFest 2016, Jet City Comic Show, SciTech Northwest, and more

With Elon Musk’s announcement that he plans to colonize Mars within a century, space has been on a lot of… Read More

Blue Origin coat of arms

Gradatim Ferociter! Jeff Bezos explains Blue Origin’s motto, logo … and the boots

You can’t buy stuff from billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture on Amazon just yet, but just wait: Sixteen… Read More

Apollo 11 command module

Apollo 11 moon ship may go on tour for 50th anniversary – and stop by Seattle

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is laying the groundwork for a 50th-anniversary traveling exhibit featuring Apollo 11 space hardware,… Read More

Tiangong and Shenzhou

China snaps selfies of its space lab

China’s Tiangong 2 space lab has a paparazzi traveling alongside it, in the form of a picture-snapping satellite that’s the size… Read More

SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System liftoff

SpaceX’s Elon Musk geeks out over Mars interplanetary transport plan on Reddit

In the weeks ahead, SpaceX plans to pressure-test a prototype carbon fiber tank on an oceangoing barge, to gauge how well… Read More

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