editor of http://collectSPACE.com, on the trail of space history artifacts, missing moon rocks and where space exploration intersects with pop culture
Robert Pearlman
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SpaceX on Friday (June 12) is now valued at over $2 trillion after the largest IPO (initial public opening) in history. To mark the momentous day, the company is offering several new collectibles through its online shop, including a SPCX mission patch and a Raptor engine bell (that really rings!).
Three support towers that stood as unintentional monuments to unrealized space history have been toppled at Vandenberg Space Force Base...
A new set of five wristwatches embeds the motion of time into scenes from space history...
Astrophilatelists may see something different in one of the United States Postal Service's four "Postcrossing" Global Forever stamps...
The Artemis II astronauts did not exceed the speed record set by the Apollo 10 crew in 1969, but they did inspire a new version of a related, venerable patch...
The public is invited to visit NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC to tour through a newly-installed selection of space artifacts, models, murals and moon rocks...
NASA on Tuesday (June 9) revealed the four astronauts who will fly on the Artemis III mission, currently targeted for next year...
For the past 11 years, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution or MAVEN spacecraft provided new insight into why Mars' atmosphere had gone missing. Now, six months after it fell silent, the probe has been declared lost by NASA...
Unlike the events that unfold on "For All Mankind," almost all of the Soviet Union's space history has changed at the start of the new spinoff series "Star City." So, can it still be called an alternate history?
Guests going Soarin' at Disney World's EPCOT will now take flight alongside NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as it lifts off on an Artemis moon mission. On Soarin' Across America, the opening scene of the new semiquincentennial edition chases the rocket as it climbs into the sky...
One of the United States' most-storied space launch sites has been cleared of its towers, making way for modern rockets to use the pad. Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6) is arguably more famous for what ...
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Robert Pearlman
Robert Pearlman
How does a spaceflight company celebrate going public? With a mission patch and a (rocket engine) bell, of course. SpaceX (SPCX on Nasdaq) debuted the collectibles on the same day that its IPO (initia...
Astronaut Ed White is half past the hour. Earth is at noon when high in the sky. Or, if you prefer, Mars moves every revolution of the moon outside of the cupola. The time displays are all a part of X...
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A new United States postage stamp features a colorful graphic of an astronaut carrying a postcard out on a spacewalk. Officially, the stamp celebrates the global hobby of "Postcrossing," but it also o...
NASA's Artemis II crew are the fastest people alive, and now they have the patch to prove it. The Mach 39 patch is an update to the 40-year-old original Mach 25 patch, the design of which inspired the...
NASA's first astronauts to fly to the moon in more than 50 years handed off the baton to the next four people to launch on an Orion. The Artemis III crew is commander Randy Bresnik, pilot Luca Parmita...
NASA's MAVEN mission has ended as it began: with a mystery. The twelfth spacecraft to enter orbit around the red planet, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, probe has studied what be...
NASA is inviting the public to its main office in the nation's capital. The space agency has completed redesigning the entrance to its Mary W. Jackson Headquarters Building in Washington, D.C. to incl...
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You can now go "soarin'" with NASA's Space Launch System as part of Disney's celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States. The new Soarin' Across America begins with a front row seat at t...
Is a show based on an alternate timeline really an alt history if the audience at large does not know the actual events of the past? "Star City," the spinoff to "For All Mankind" now streaming on Appl...
