Jan 12, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Kids Space, Space Tourism
If you’re anxious to travel into space – and have the tens of millions of dollars to shoulder your passion – then the news today from Space Adventures you’ll like. Working with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) and Rocket Space Corporation...
Nov 13, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
The privatization of commercial space travel has taken a step forward. On November 9, The Spaceship Company (TSC) broke ground on a new assembly, integration and test hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. A subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation,...
Oct 30, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Planet Earth, Space Research, Space Shuttle, Space Tourism
Here’s a medical mix: the space shuttle, immune systems in space, and elderly and young children here on Earth. Onboard space shuttle Discovery’s STS-133 mission, there are sixteen rodent hitchhikers, riding in their own self-contained modules. The mice aboard...
Oct 24, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race, Space Research, Space Tourism
Space Commerce – The Inside Story By The People Who Are Making It Happen by Langdon Morris and Kenneth J. Cox, Editors, An Aerospace Technology Working Group Book; $27.95; 2010. Here’s a very readable and informative look at giving space the business! That is, how...
Oct 23, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico – An amazing day here at Spaceport America as the New Mexico Spaceport Authority dedicated the nearly two-mile long runway – a specially-built runway to bolster the future of public space travel to the edge of space. During the...
Oct 20, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Space Tourism, Spaceports
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Leading space entrepreneurs have gathered here to assess the political and economic climate for personal and commercial spaceflight. Meanwhile, construction crews are at work at a neighboring but remote site – busily completing Spaceport...
Oct 12, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Space Tourism, Spaceports
The maiden solo flight of the privately-built SpaceShipTwo on October 10 moves forward the day of passenger travel to the suborbital heights. That date marked the successful completion of the first piloted free flight of SpaceShipTwo, named the VSS Enterprise. “We at...
Oct 10, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Space Tourism, Spaceports
SpaceShipTwo has flown solo for the first time at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Released at altitude early this morning from its carrier plane – the WhiteKnightTwo – the first, on-its-own aerial flight of the Virgin Galactic space vehicle successfully...
Oct 9, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Space industrialization and settlement of the high frontier will be the theme of a threshold conference to be held at month’s end. Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement conference will bring together futurists, space scientists and...
Oct 8, 2010 | Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
The Wright Stuff – The Century of Effort Behind Your Ticket to Space By Derek Webber; Apogee Books; Burlington, Ontario Canada; $25.95 (soft cover); October 2010. Here’s an invaluable guide to the emergence of public space tourism. What the reader will find in...