Category: Space Exploration

Friendship 7, America’s First Orbital Flight – 58 Years Ago Today

Posted by Susan Macdonald | Feb 20, 2020 | Blinded by Science, Science Fiction / Fantasy, Space Exploration |

Mercury-Atlas 6 launched John Glenn into the history books on this day aboard the Friendship 7 58 years ago today.

A Monument for Félicette, the Astrocat, First Cat in Space

Posted by Susan Macdonald | Feb 12, 2020 | Blinded by Science, Space Exploration |

The first cat in space gets her memorial statue at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.

Welcome Home, International Space Station Astronaut Christina Koch

Posted by SCIFI.radio | Feb 9, 2020 | Blinded by Science, Science Fiction / Fantasy, Space Exploration |

Mrs. Koch returns to Earth after a record-breaking 340 days in space.

SpaceX Successfully Tests Crew Dragon Launch Escape

Posted by Susan Macdonald | Jan 20, 2020 | Blinded by Science, Space Exploration |

Check the video at 19:37 for the giant orange fireball as Falcon 9 explodes. (Don’t worry, that was supposed to happen.)

Watch SpaceX’s Starship Mk1 Final Assembly

Posted by SCIFI.radio | Sep 30, 2019 | Blinded by Science, Science Fiction / Fantasy, Space Exploration |

Looking like something straight from 1950’s pulp scifi magazines, the Mk1 should be ready for its low altitude test in a matter of weeks.

LISTEN NOW

A Random

SCIFI.radio story

Earth encounters a parallel universe populated by sentient squirrels who understand us all too well who tend to stutter under pressure when confronted by a nuclear bomb but a priest tells them about the God and they are turned into weird rocks that all look suspiciously like either Elvis or Madonna, but nobody can agree on which one it is.
The End.

SCIFI for
your WIFI