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...
Oct 1, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
The first drop test of – SpaceShipTwo – the suborbital spaceliner being built for Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic — appears to be near at hand. SpaceShipTwo is undergoing testing by Scaled Composites at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Taking...
Sep 16, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
The WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) is back in the air after a landing incident on August 19th. The WK2 is the mothership that totes to drop altitude the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) suborbital spaceliner – a six passenger, two pilot craft now under development for Sir Richard Branson’s...
Sep 6, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Constellation Program, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space Race, Space Shuttle, Space Tourism, Spaceports, The Moon
The Spaceflight Vault – A History of NASA’s Manned Missions by Mark Mayfield; Whitman Publishing, LLC; Atlanta, Georgia; $49.95 (hard cover/box); 2010. Here’s a book that keeps on giving and giving. This volume is designed as a scrapbook, but also provides a...
Aug 27, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Stand by for acceleration! The Danish non-profit Copenhagen Suborbitals is readying its HEAT-1X-Tycho Brahe – an unpiloted sounding rocket, but a precursor to a larger rocket designed to carry a human passenger on a suborbital voyage. The effort is based entirely on...
Jul 17, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Newsroom, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Up, up…but not quite away! SpaceShipTwo captive-carry test includes first onboard crew. Credit: Virgin Galactic The scene at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California was one of thumbs up and all smiles. For the first time with a crew on board, the...
Jul 12, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Events, Exploration, Space and Science, Space Research, Spaceports, The Moon
Credit: LiftPort Group It is not science fiction. It’s a way to colonize space using today’s technologies and materials. That’s the view of advocates for planting a space elevator on the Moon. The concept would consist of a ribbon made of very strong and very light...
May 26, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Newsroom, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Credit: Virgin Galactic Spaceport America in New Mexico continues to take shape, the future site of commercial space tourism flights. Hundreds of construction workers are busily churning up dirt, completing a huge runway and terminal at the site. Sir Richard...
May 21, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Newsroom, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, Spaceports
Japan’s H-IIA Launch Vehicle has successfully lofted the Venus Climate Orbiter, a solar sail experiment and several small mini-payloads. The booster lifted off on May 21 from the Tanegashima Space Center. AKATSUKI, the Venus Climate Orbiter mission (PLANET-C), is on...