Spaceports will enable thousands of people from around the world to go to outer space. The Spaceports Blog endeavors to provide information linking those with interest in the pursuit of space to spaceport development and the people and vehicles that fly from them.
An new innovative computer program has been used by scientists from Northern Illinois University and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston to add to the growing body of scientific eveidence that the planet Mars had an ancient and significant...
On Monday, December 7th 2009 history will be made at the Mojave Desert Spaceport, California when Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites unveil SpaceShipTwo for the first time prior to her test flight program and the lead up to full commercial...
Editorial: The challenge of space exploration to the Moon, Mars, and the planets beyond should be one of the human race, not just of individual nations, in the 21st Century. The peoples of the United States, Russia, China, India, Japan, and, the...
The WISE infrared astronomy satellite will take to the pre-sunrise sky at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California between 6:10 and 6:23 AM PST on Wednesday, December 9, 2009. It will hunt for asteroids, comets, brown dwarf stars and conduct a deep space...
"Supercalifragilistic is the only word I can come up with to describe this flyby" said one planetary scientist. "This batch of pictures further convinces me that Enceladus could be humankinds perfect jumping off point on it’s “Trek to the Stars,"'...
