Picking Up Speed! SpaceShipTwo Glide Flights
SpaceShipTwo completes 6th glide test. Photo Credit: Bill Deaver, Deaver-Wiggins and Associates Things have been busy at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California! It’s the home of Scaled Composites and the firm’s ongoing work to develop a passenger-carrying...Call by Private Spaceship Company: Pilot-Astronauts, Please Apply!
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The privately-backed SpaceShipTwo has taken wing again, chalking up its fourth drop test on January 13 after being released from its mothership, WhiteKnightTwo, high above the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is capable of...Beyond Low Earth Orbit: Gateway Space Facility Proposed
A study team, comprised of NASA, university and research institute planners, has taken a dedicated look at a flexible path to multiple destinations in space. The focus of the group is to evaluate concepts for post-International Space Station (ISS) space habitation...Groundbreaking for The Spaceship Company
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,...Runway to Suborbital Space Dedicated, Virgin Galactic Hints at Orbital Vehicle
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...Private Space Travel: Taking Incremental Steps
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...SpaceShipTwo: On a Confidence Building Glide Path
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...Private Spaceship Makes First Solo Flight!
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...Space Talk
Two weeks after the CRS NG-24 mission launched cargo to the ISS, another cargo ship is ready to fly to the Station.
The Progress MS-34 spacecraft is scheduled to launch atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, during an
Progress MS-34 to launch from Baikonur for ISS cargo delivery - NASASpaceFlight.com
Two weeks after the CRS NG-24 mission launched cargo to the International Space Station (ISS),…
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@mcrs987 Yeah, like I said, for a shallow water landing site this can work fine, but not if it’s the deepest portion of the basin
Picture, 1000 years from now, going on a tour to see the first human landing site on mars, and it’s just this.
That would kinda suck
My personal opinion is that the first crewed Mars landing shouldn’t be on any portion of the planet that might end up underneath an ocean.
Terraforming isn’t a question of if, but how long it will take, and I don’t want to see our equivalent of Apollo 11 drowned under an ocean.
