Space Archives

11 things I learned about Star Trek after enlisting in the military

September 26, 2021

Watching Star Trek as a kid was awesome. Space battles, morality plays, explosions… everything about it was what a budding young nerd needs to ensure he doesn’t get a date until after high school.

Here’s how astronauts do their laundry in space

July 19, 2021

By Bethaney Phillips

Picture this: you’re gearing up for a trip to space. You’ll be gone roughly six months, which means you’ll need a cool 180 pairs of underwear or so packed in…

The insane way the first cosmonaut got back to Earth

July 17, 2021

By Logan Nye

The very first man to go to space was a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, who rose to the top of his class thanks to his stunning memory, quick reactions, and poise during emergencies. That poise would come in handy since his spacecraft couldn’t surv…

How you can buy M1911 pistols made from meteorites

July 10, 2021

By Blake Stilwell

Few weapons ever wielded by the U.S. Military are more beloved than the M1911. The weapon was designed by a competitive pistol shooter and equipped with the stopping power necessary to take down a berserk Moro rebel fighter. There’…

3 awesome movie weapons that would actually get their users killed

June 30, 2021

By Alex Hollings

In this era of massive budget blockbusters and even bigger “shared universe” movie franchises, it’s safe to say that we’re not always looking for realism at the cinema. While films are capable of conveying lots of different sorts of messages, th…

This ‘Einstein Box’ helps F-22s secretly communicate with unstealthy planes

June 21, 2021

By Harold C. Hutchison

America’s troops have very awesome tactical gear, even through all the teething problems that systems like the F-35 Lightning II have had.

That said, all that gear can’t win a war unless you can come up with a good plan.

During a…

The second man on the moon wants you to know that Tang sucks

June 9, 2021

By Military.com

Tang, the orange-flavored drink mix that intrepid American astronauts took into space, wasn’t selling so well until it famously went into orbit. And there’s at least one astronaut who wishes…

This is what it takes to walk on the moon

May 13, 2021

By Eric Milzarski

Vice President Mike Pence said in a statement at the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar that we will put American boots back on the Moon. It reaffir…

This is what happens to your body if you die in space

February 19, 2021

By Eric Milzarski

As mankind turns their eyes back to space and technology edges us ever closer to a life outside of the atmosphere, there must also be contingency plans established in case the worst happens to astronauts. To date, there is no defined protocol for re…

The Soviets were the first to put a flag on the moon — not the US

February 5, 2021

By Tim Kirkpatrick

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person in history to dismount a lunar space module and walk on the moon. It was then that he spoke those famous words,

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”