Companies Eye Microgravity Production Technology
A business unit of the Schafer Corporation based in Albuquerque, New Mexico has teamed with MoonDust Technologies of Tucson, Arizona to pursue a unique line of products resulting from the use of Schafer’s proprietary microgravity production technology. The agreement...Book review: Out of This World – New Mexico’s Contributions to Space Travel
Out of This World – New Mexico’s Contributions to Space Travel by Loretta Hall; Rio Grande Books, Los Ranchos, New Mexico; $19.95 (Paperback); 2011. For a good many readers, I’m sure you’re hungry to slip into a spacesuit and head for the heavens. No doubt you are...Keys to a New Dawn: Commercial Space Travel
All is in readiness for dedication ceremonies of Spaceport America’s new Terminal Hangar Facility – a futuristic structure to house Virgin Galactic space vehicles and serve as a departure and arrival terminal for the spaceline firm’s space passengers. Virgin...Book Review: Burt Rutan’s Race to Space – The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations
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...Competition for Global Space Leadership Tightens, Futron reports
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,...Private Space Tourist Rocket Plane Completes 15th Glide Test
SpaceShipTwo – the private spaceliner for space tourists – flew today on its 15th drop test over the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The unique and futuristic suborbital vehicle is being readied to haul pay-per-view passengers to and from the edge of space....Reusable Rocket Testing Underway at Spaceport America
The desert landscape of New Mexico’s Spaceport America is a perfect setting for testing rockets. In fact, the father of American rocketry, Robert Goddard, found the area ideal for his trial testing of hardware. Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas is now test flying...SpaceShipTwo Scores Another Glide Test!
Another glide flight of the SpaceShipTwo took place today at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Today’s high-altitude drop from the carrier airplane – WhiteKnightTwo – was the eleventh glide flight for the SpaceShipTwo. Onboard the vessel, putting the...Student Experiments Hurled Into Space
UP Aerospace rocket liftoff from New Mexico carries student experiments to the edge of space. Credit: Spaceport America SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico – NASA’s Summer of Innovation had a special liftoff here on May 20 with a powerful suborbital rocket scooting to the...Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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