David Ariosto

2 months ago | spacenews.com | David Ariosto

There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn (the first American to orbit the Earth) and Neil Armstrong (the first man on the Moon) both hailed from rural Ohio towns. Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space) grew up in a small Russian village. Perhaps, however, the apparent nexus between Earth’s isolated locales and those final frontiers is derived from more practical reasons.

Jan 21, 2025 | noemamag.com | David Ariosto

Credits David Ariosto is the author of the upcoming Alfred A. Knopf book, “Open Space,” and co-host of the SpaceMinds podcast on SpaceNews. In 1606, a group of English merchants, nobles and adventurers decided they needed three transatlantic ships to pursue riches in the “New World.” Rivals Spain, France and Portugal had already amassed immense wealth across Latin America, and England’s King James I was looking to catch up. The crown, however, was also wary of risking public money.

Mar 4, 2024 | eetimes.com | David Ariosto

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> When the world’s first commercial lunar lander made its historic touchdown near the moon’s south pole last week, the promise of another groundbreaking venture was also in the works. Stored within a software application loaded onto the craft’s on-board computer were the makings of a lunar data center, along with the hopes of redefining deep-space computing.

Nov 18, 2023 | spaceref.com | David Ariosto

The massive rocket that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk positioned as the vehicle that will bring astronauts to the Moon and eventually Mars took flight on Saturday (November 18), approximately seven months after the first launch exploded in what SpaceX then playfully described as a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”SUBSCRIBERS ONLY This content is for Website Basic Subscription (Monthly) and Website Basic Subscription (Annual) members only. FIRST MONTH FREE

Nov 2, 2023 | parabolicarc.com | David Ariosto

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity space plane soared into sub-orbit on Thursday (November 2), marking the fifth commercial flight for the company and the sixth such flight for the reusable craft in the past half-year. The mothership, an aircraft named VSS Eve, ascended to an altitude of more than 44,000 feet before releasing the VSS Unity, which then launched from under its wing and traveled some 50 miles higher on its trajectory above the atmosphere and into space.