Organizations
The agencies and companies building humanity's path off Earth.
Start with an organization, then follow it down to the rockets it flies, the missions those rockets fly, the engineering behind them, and the labs you can run yourself.
Start at the top, follow it down.
Each organization opens into the things it actually builds — vehicles, missions, the engineering behind them — and ends at a lab you can run yourself.
Who they are and what they're trying to do.
The rockets and spacecraft they fly.
Where those vehicles go, and why.
The engineering that makes it work.
Build and run the systems yourself.
Where to start.
Two to begin with: SpaceX, the company that made rockets reusable, and NASA, the agency that went to the Moon. More will follow.
SpaceX
The company that landed an orbital rocket, then launched it again.
Founded in 2002 to make spaceflight cheaper, SpaceX became the first private company to send a spacecraft to orbit and bring it back — and the first to land an orbital-class booster.
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- Missions
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NASA
The agency that put twelve people on the Moon and keeps rewriting what we know about the universe.
Founded in 1958, NASA is the United States’ civil space agency — behind Apollo, the Space Shuttle, the great observatories, and the robotic probes still exploring the solar system.
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- Missions
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Follow a single thread.
A few traced paths — from an organization to one of its missions, the technology behind it, and the lab at the end.
How a Falcon 9 flies, lands, and flies again
From the company to the rocket, the missions it flies, the technology that brings it home, and the lab where you can build one yourself.
Reusable orbital-class launcher
High-cadence launch roles
Recovery as engineering infrastructure
Artemis: returning to the Moon
From the program goal to the rocket, the crew capsule, the systems a landing needs, and the labs still to come.
Return humans to lunar exploration
Launch energy and crew transport
Architecture beyond one vehicle
Coming soon
Voyager: leaving the solar system
How a 1977 probe became humanity’s most distant explorer — the mission, the technology that keeps it alive, and the science it still returns.
Outer planet and deep-space science
Autonomous scientific spacecraft
Flybys become measurements
Coming soon
Pick one and dig in.
Open SpaceX to follow Falcon 9 from launch to landing and into the live lab, or open NASA for the Moon, the great telescopes, and the probes still flying.