By Ananya Chopra, The Lawrenceville School, NJ As the most powerful launch vehicle ever built, Starship represents a vision for a reusable and scalable space transport system that will transform the spaceflight industry. Its design for full reusability, massive payloads, and deep-space missions has the potential to transform the future of human space exploration, satellite logistics, and commercial access to orbit.  Unlike traditional rockets, which discard the upper stages a

By Joshua Wang, The Lawrenceville School For nine years after the last flight of the space shuttle on July 21, 2011, NASA depended on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to send astronauts and scientists to the International Space Station (ISS). In 2014, as an effort to promote cost-effectiveness, competition, and independence from foreign space organizations, NASA awarded US companies Boeing and its competitor, SpaceX, with contracts to develop new systems for ISS transportation. T

By Roger He, Columnist; Valley Christian Schools, CA A war is currently ongoing in space. But this war is not between humans and aliens,...

By George Cavanna, The Lawrenceville School, NJ Humans measure time in many ways, with clocks, stopwatches, electronic timers,...