News Archive / Author: Cullen Desforges
Having a life-long interest in crewed space flight, Desforges’ passion materialized on a family vacation in 1999 when he was able see the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-96. Since then, Desforges has been an enthusiast of space exploration efforts. He lived in Orlando, Florida for a year, during which time he had the opportunity to witness the flights of the historic CRS-4 and EFT-1 missions in person at Cape Canaveral. He earned his Private Pilot Certificate in 2017, holds a degree in Aviation Management, and currently works as an Operations Analyst in the aviation industry in Georgia.
Articles By Cullen Desforges
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SpaceX Starship Super Heavy booster, launch tower take shape
June 23rd, 2021In the last few weeks, SpaceX’s South Texas facility known as Starbase has seen significant progress in its quest to become a mass-producing entity of heavy-lift rockets.
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NASA’s InSight Mars lander solar panels cleared of some dust
June 18th, 2021NASA’s InSight Mars lander cleaned some dust off its solar panels using a counter-intuitive technique, which resulted in a boost in power production.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 7th flight
June 9th, 2021Fresh off of a recent in-flight anomaly, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has successfully completed its seventh flight across the surface of the red planet.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter experiences turbulent sixth flight
May 27th, 2021After five near-flawless flights, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter ran into trouble during its sixth, testing the margins of the spacecraft’s stability.
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SLS rocket core for Artemis 2 mission reaches major milestone
May 20th, 2021Teams at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have begun assembling the core stage for the second Space Launch System rocket, which aims to send people around the Moon in 2023.
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Loss of payload follows Rocket Lab flight anomaly
May 15th, 2021Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket from the shores of New Zealand on May 15 at 11:11 UTC, but unfortunately suffered an unexpected anomaly during staging.
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Ingenuity Mars helicopter transitions to “operations demonstration phase”
May 10th, 2021NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully took to the Martial skies for a fifth time, proving its capabilities as a fully-functioning aircraft.
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After flight 4, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter begins new demo phase
May 3rd, 2021NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has once again proven itself to be the aeronautic showstopper of 2021 with its fourth flight above the Martian surface, setting the stage for a 30-day "operations demonstration" phase.
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Bill Nelson confirmed as NASA administrator
April 29th, 2021On Thursday, April 29, 2021, the U.S. Senate confirmed Bill Nelson by unanimous consent to be the next NASA administrator.
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Ingenuity helicopter flies ‘half the length of a football field’
April 26th, 2021Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have received data confirming a successful third flight of Ingenuity, its most ambitious yet.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies for a second time
April 22nd, 2021After making history as the first powered aircraft on another planet, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew for a second time, this time even farther and longer.
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Amazon buys Atlas V rockets to orbit its Kuiper constellation
April 21st, 2021On Monday, April 19, Amazon announced that it purchased nine Atlas V rocket flights from United Launch Alliance for the orbital insertion of its Kuiper satellites.
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‘Wright brothers moment’: Ingenuity takes flight on Mars
April 19th, 2021With NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, history has been made as humankind made the next great stride in powered flight; the first flight on another planet.
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Software issue delays Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight
April 14th, 2021History will have to wait a little longer as the first flight of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars has been delayed by at least a week.
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Ingenuity helicopter deployed onto the Martian surface
April 5th, 2021NASA’s first interplanetary helicopter has touched the surface of Mars for the first time after being deployed from underneath the Perseverance rover.
