Month: October 2021

The Boeing Company is an American aerospace company that makes rockets, airplanes, satellites, missiles and other high-tech products. Since 2011, they have been involved in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) to provide a new vehicle that can ferry astronauts into space.  Boeing was founded in 1916 by William Edward Boeing in Seattle, Washington, according to an informational video on the company’s website. Boeing, who had made a fortune selling lumber, joined with engineer George Conrad Westervelt to build a new type of seaplane called the Boeing Model 1.  From planes…

The latest entry from Apple TV+ into the beautiful, bulging estuary of science fiction is a show called “Invasion” and its three episodes have landed in the streaming TV universe.  The first three episodes of “Invasion” dropped on Friday (Oct. 22), with seven more coming on a weekly basis. Until now, we’d only seen the official trailer, but some members of the press were granted access to the first five episodes and Space.com was able to speak to the show’s co-creator, David Weil, ahead of the series’ debut. According to…

Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game will be released by Free League Publishing in 2022. (Image credit: Free League Publishing) The folks at Swedish gaming lab Free League Publishing know a thing or two about crafting award-winning games and art books for iconic science fiction, fantasy, and horror properties like “Alien,” “The Lord of the Rings” and “Tales From the Loop.” Now the talented Euro designers have set their skills upon the neo-noir world of “Blade Runner” for an upcoming 2022 roleplaying game that transports players to the neon-drenched future where…

The Hubble Space Telescope caught a pair of “squabbling” galaxies in action, according to the European Space Agency. The pair of objects is known as Arp 86 and includes two galaxies roughly 220 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. They are known individually as NGC 7753 and the much smaller companion NGC 7752. “The diminutive companion galaxy almost appears attached to NGC 7753, and it is this peculiarity that has earned the designation ‘Arp 86’ – signifying that the galaxy pair appears in the Atlas of Peculiar…

UPDATE for 9 am ET: Arianespace has placed its launch on hold for tonight’s SES-17 and Syracuse 4A launch. The launch window extends through 11:30 p.m. EDT (0330 GMT).  An Ariane 5 rocket will launch two communications satellites into orbit from a South American spaceport tonight (Oct. 23) after a one-day delay and you can watch the liftoff live online.  The French launch provider Arianespace will launch the Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana tonight during a 2.5-hour window that opens at 9:01 p.m.…

There is going to be a lot to look at between now and the December solstice: two eclipses, four meteor showers, the brightest planet in the solar system reaching its pinnacle in brilliance and a potential bright comet!  Let’s take a closer look at each of these upcoming events. Related: The brightest planets in the night sky: How to see them (and when) Nov. 19: An almost total eclipse of the moon. Map of the partial lunar eclipse of Nov. 19, 2021.  (Image credit: Fred Espenak/NASA) North and South America…