Museum of Flight exhibition celebrates 150 years of space station dreams and realities The dream of having people live and work in space didn’t start with billionaire Jeff Bezos, or even with rocket… Read More
Blue Origin flies its first crew in 21 months — and writes another page in space history Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today resumed sending people on suborbital space trips after a 21-month gap, and made… Read More
Blue Origin puts a test pilot who could have been NASA’s first Black astronaut on its next space crew If the fates decided differently, Air Force test pilot Ed Dwight could have become NASA’s first Black astronaut in the… Read More
Godspeed, Stoke Space! Rocket startup gets John Glenn’s launch pad at the Cape Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space says it’s won the go-ahead to take over the Florida launch complex where John Glenn began… Read More
NASA’s Boeing-built moon rovers are granted Washington state landmark status Three hot rods on the moon are now official Washington state historic landmarks, thanks to a unanimous vote by a… Read More
NASA’s Dragon riders capture the flag, nine years after it was left on the space station A day after arriving at the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob… Read More
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden dies at 88, leaving 11 living moon travelers Retired astronaut Al Worden, who was once called the “loneliest human being” because of his role as Apollo 15’s command… Read More
One giant leap for preservation: Kent wins landmark status for Boeing’s moon buggies King County now has three landmarks that are out of this world. Literally. Tonight, the King County Landmarks Commission unanimously… Read More
Apollo 11 moon landing’s 50th anniversary brings tributes, questions … and liftoff! Fifty years after Apollo 11’s moonwalkers took one giant leap for humanity, luminaries including President Donald Trump and Amazon CEO… Read More
Play Episode Podcast 50 years after Apollo 11, unsung heroes of Mission Control ponder past and future of the final frontier Play [Editor’s Note: This episode of the GeekWire Podcast is part of the Destination Moon podcrawl, organized by Seattle’s Museum of… Read More
Little-known twists in moonshot tales come to light 50 years after Apollo 11 Even after 50 years, it’s still possible to find new angles on one of history’s most widely witnessed events —… Read More
Check out Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 flight manual before its multimillion-dollar sale The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book that sat between Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for the moon landing 50… Read More
Jeff Bezos explains how going to the moon is harder now than it was for JFK in 1962 Back in 1962, President John F. Kennedy said he chose to have Americans go to the moon not because it… Read More
Museum of Flight rounds up ‘Summer of Space’ goodies for Apollo 11 anniversary Want a little space history in your beer? Or soda pop? Or chocolate? Seattle brands are banding together to mark… Read More
Lego launches a 1,087-piece Apollo 11 lunar lander model, astronauts included That’s one giant heap of Lego bricks: To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Lego… Read More
50 years after first lunar landing, Apollo moonshots inspire a new blast of books In the 50 years since Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong left humanity’s first bootprint on the moon, that “one small… Read More
Play Episode Podcast ‘Destination Moon’ exhibit highlights Apollo history — and Neil Armstrong’s family history as well Play “Destination Moon,” the traveling exhibit making its debut at Seattle’s Museum of Flight this month, puts some of the greatest… Read More
As Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary nears, space fans get ready to celebrate The countdown is on for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and that means the appointment books… Read More
NASA and President Trump pay tribute to fallen astronauts in shutdown’s wake NASA highlighted the legacy of astronauts lost in tragic missions including 1967’s Apollo 1, the shuttle Challenger’s launch in 1986… Read More
Hey, kids! Here’s your chance to re-enact the Apollo 11 moon landing with robots Fifty years after the first Apollo moon landing, students from across the country will get a chance to re-enact the… Read More
Relativity Space gets a historic place to use for its Cape Canaveral launch pad in Florida Relativity Space, the California-based rocket startup that got its start in Seattle, has won Air Force clearance to build its… Read More
How engineers (and astronauts) made Apollo 8’s ‘Earthrise’ trip to the moon possible 50 years ago It’s been 50 years to the day since Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders’ “Earthrise” photo changed our world forever, but… Read More
After questioning moon landings, NBA star Stephen Curry gets an invite from NASA One way to get an tour of Johnson Space Center’s high-security Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility is to question whether people… Read More
Cosmos on your coffee table: These big books make a big impact for holiday giving If you’re going to give somebody a book for the holidays, why not go big? In this age of ebooks,… Read More
How the Air and Space Museum signed up for a SpaceShipOne tribute to Paul Allen It wasn’t just Seattle’s skyline that turned blue on Saturday night: Back east in the nation’s capital, the Smithsonian Institution’s… Read More
50 years after Apollo moonshots, will rivalry with China spark a new space race? WASHINGTON, D.C. — An American rivalry with China could stoke a new space race in the years ahead, prominent members of… Read More
Apollo 17 moonwalker Harrison Schmitt stirs up a buzz with climate change views WASHINGTON, D.C. — I didn’t invite Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt to get his views on climate change, but that’s the… Read More
Review: ‘First Man’ and ‘The First’ focus on the moon, on Mars … and on families Two big-name dramatic productions — “First Man” in theaters, and “The First” on Hulu — are putting the glorious past… Read More
T-minus-1 year: The moon is on the rise as Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary approaches Forty-nine years ago today, humans first set foot on a world beyond Earth — and by the time the 50th anniversary… Read More
Buzz Aldrin shares latest space vision even as questions swirl about his state of mind Buzz Aldrin wants people to know that he has some cool new ideas about how to get to the moon… Read More
