Book Review: Burt Rutan’s Race to Space – The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations

Sep 3, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Biographies, Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Tourism, Spaceports

Burt Rutan’s Race to Space – The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations by Dan Linehan; Zenith Press, Minneapolis, MN; $30.00 (hardcover); July 2011. Burt Rutan is an aerospace maverick, racking up a long list of innovative airplane designs – including...

Space Station Robots Reach for Stars

Sep 2, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Canadian Space Agency, Commercial Space, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, Space Shuttle, The Moon

  It’s been a big week for robots living outside as well as inside the International Space Station. Robonaut 2, NASA’s humanoid collaboration with U. S. automaker General Motors, however, may have to take a temporary backseat to DEXTRE, the two-armed Canadian...

Russian Progress Loss May Impact Space Station Operations

Aug 24, 2011 | Canadian Space Agency, Commercial Space, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Roscosmos, Space Research

    A Russian Progress supply craft bound for the International Space Station crashed back to Earth early Wednesday, potentially impacting future crew as well as cargo transportation activities aboard the orbiting science lab — barely a month after...

NASA Demo Missions to Enable Deep Space Exploration

Aug 23, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Commercial Space, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space Research, The Moon, The Sun

NASA will invest $175 million in a trio of new technology demonstration flights that promise to hasten much more capable missions of deep space exploration by humans as well as robots. The demo flights, which the space agency intends to undertake in 2015 and 2016,...

Competition for Global Space Leadership Tightens, Futron reports

Aug 18, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Canadian Space Agency, China, Commercial Space, Education, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Roscosmos, Space and Science, Space Race, Space Research, Space Tourism, Spaceports, The Moon, Why Space

  The Futron Corp’s 2011 Space Competiveness Index finds the United States perched atop 10 global competitors in the field, yet slipping as the nation’s space policy undergoes a transition, especially in the realm of human space flight. The Bethesda,...