There’s a soccer team that brings space engineers from around the country together on the field. Not as adversaries in a race to the moon or Mars, but as a team — united.
There’s a soccer team that brings space engineers from around the country together on the field. Not as adversaries in a race to the moon or Mars, but as a team — united.
Ronald McNair was just 35 years old when he died aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle. That tragedy ended a brilliant life spent conquering adversity.
The Survival Goggles, Sun Bonnet, and Quilt are a painstakingly handmade homage to the Apollo survival missions of August, 1964.
The International Space Station is a modern marvel of engineering. Designing it was a nightmare.
SpaceX launches the first Polar Orbit mission from Cape Canaveral since the 1960s.
Space Age Museum holds the largest archive of this unique moment in popular culture, during a time that radically transformed our perspective.
A global surge of nationalism and the commercialization of space means the ISS may be the first — and last — space station of its kind.
A Falcon 9 rocket has now launched and landed a record six times
There’s a deep connection between psychedelic culture and space art. The earliest blotters advertised their possibilities with crescent moons, swirling nebulas, and starscapes.
India’s first lunar mission, Chandrayaan 1, confirmed the existence of water on the Moon. It was a groundbreaking achievement for Mission Director Srinivasa Hegde.
Mars is hard. The global success rate of Mars missions is just 48%, yet NASA has a seemingly impossible 88% success rate. Perseverance hopes to raise the bar even higher.
ULA has launched every NASA mission to Mars — and Perseverance, their most important mission, will carry the first flying machine to the surface of another planet.
Marla Pérez-Davis now heads NASA Glenn and will help ensure that the first woman arrives safely on the surface of the moon.
Embedded within towering limestone mountains, the giant Five-hundred-meter F.A.S.T. is the world’s most powerful radio telescope. It’s also the next great hope in SETI.
Supercluster's own Jamie Carreiro and Eric Collins discuss the outlandish engineering that made it possible for humans to drive on another world.
A new book outlines how to upend the most dominant theory in cosmology. Good luck actually doing it.
This year the International Space Station turns 20. Astronaut Nicole Stott reflects on her time aboard the station, what it means for science, and what it means for humanity.
Join us for this special episode of the Supercluster Podcast as we look back into aviation history to bring you the incredible story of legendary American aviator Wiley Post.
Crew Dragon's stunning launch, and Falcon 9's triumphant return from its first human mission.
Kerbal’s Developers built a space program for the rest of us.
With 3.1M following the ISS Twitter account, Leah Cheshier and her team at Johnson Space Center have a massive audience that depends on them for the latest space news
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley stand on the precipice of history, like so many space explorers before them.
It's not a ticket on Starship, but hopefully this library of wallpapers, zoom backgrounds, and a collection of greatest hits reminds you what life will be like when we're back under the stars.
Experiments at the International Space Station have paved the way to Mars and beyond
Satiating astronauts’ deepest food desires—from freshly baked cookies to crisp apples—is an exciting frontier for those whose jobs it is to prepare and launch more palatable foods to space.
During this year's Earth Day, SpaceX successfully launched a new batch of Starlink satellites on a reusable Falcon 9 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
From China and Japan to Scandinavia and beyond, people from all over the planet have their own supernatural interpretations of the aurorae.
Virgin Orbit performed their final development test while manufacturing ventilators in the fight against COVID-19. Supercluster's Pauline Acalin was there.
You can learn a lot about a galaxy by tracing its arms. Like how fast it spins, how much dark matter it contains, or even whether a rare black hole lurks at its core.
Astrology is a 2 billion dollar business, and the most popular apps crunch data directly from NASA. So what do astronomers think of these high tech horoscopes?
On Thursday, March 26th at 4:18 pm Eastern time, ULA fired off the Atlas V from Cape Canaveral on its first mission for the newly established Space Force. Supercluster was there.
The Supercluster launch tracker is now available for iOS and Android. Get mission info, countdowns, livestreams, viewing locations and customized launch alerts
The story of Celestis, a company that offers a different kind of memorial — launching the ashes of your deceased love ones into space. Featuring Celestis CEO Charles Chafer.
Could space tourism pose a threat to the Apollo landing sites?
In the shadow of Mount Hopkins, four giant, segmented mirrors stare at the night sky.
In late 1984, NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration intentionally crashed a remote-controlled Boeing 720 passenger jet (filled with crash-test dummies) in the Mojave Desert.
Solar Sail technology fascinated Bill Nye for decades. Now, with Planetary Society, he is helping to make it a reality.