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

• Synthetic DNA could help in search for extraterrestrial life

  March 4th, 2019

  A NASA-funded research endeavor has made a breakthrough in the methods in which life on other planets might be discovered, the U.S. space agency said.

• Iridium NEXT constellation upgrade completed

  February 12th, 2019

  Iridium Communications announced last week in a press conference that it had finished its 10-year satellite upgrade project known as Iridium NEXT.

• Blue Origin breaks ground on new BE-4 engine production facility

  January 27th, 2019

  On Jan.25, 2019, Blue Origin broke ground on its new engine production and assembly facility in Huntsville, Alabama, about 25 miles from United Launch Alliance’s Decatur assembly facility.

• NASA personnel feeling the pain after 35-day shutdown ends

  January 26th, 2019

  After 35 days, the partial U.S. government shutdown has ended. Now thousands of government employees are able to return to work, including those at NASA.

• Blue Origin’s latest flight follows others in carrying NASA payloads

  January 23rd, 2019

  The tenth New Shepard Mission, NS-10, from privately-funded Blue Origin soared off the pad at 9:08 a.m. CST (10:08 a.m. EST / 15:08 GMT) on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at the company's launch facilities located in Culberson County, Texas. The mission included several experiments flown on behalf of NASA and was, by current reports, a success.

• Astronauts for Boeing’s first crewed CCP flight reshuffled

  January 22nd, 2019

  Boeing has experienced a rearranging of the astronauts assigned to Starliner's first crewed flight.

• New year, new era? Commercial Crew Program poised for first flights

  January 1st, 2019

  As 2018 comes to a close, NASA could be edging closer to regaining what it lost almost eight years ago - the ability to launch astronauts on its own (with the help of private companies) from U.S. soil.

• Kanopus-V pair lifts off atop Soyuz 2.1a in final Russian flight of 2018

  December 27th, 2018

  At 11:07 a.m. local time (02:07 GMT) Dec. 27, 2018, the Kanopus-V No. 5 & No. 6 satellites took to the skies above Russia atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket.

• Barely on the job a week, OSIRIS-REx makes major discovery

  December 11th, 2018

  On Dec. 3, 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the half-kilometer wide Bennu asteroid to begin a two-year study to inspect, investigate, and eventually collect samples of the materials making up its mysterious surface.

• Who needs the Guardians of the Galaxy when we have OSIRIS-REx?

  December 10th, 2018

  Last week, a spacecraft arrived at one of the smallest objects ever visited by a NASA mission after a multi-billion mile journey around the Solar System.