As noted here last week, NASA astronaut and Australian native Andy Thomas has become a major advocate of a spaceport in Woomera, one that could serve the space tourism market. The article mentioned a meeting he had with science minister Julie Bishop about the topic. However, Bishop, in an interview Sunday with Barry Cassidy of […]
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In a post yesterday, I noted that Virgin Galactic is planning to attend a number of upcoming conferences. In addition to those events, there are a couple of other conferences coming up that will discuss, in part, space tourism: The Space Access Society will be hosting Space Access ’06 in Phoenix April 20-22. This conference […] Rocketplane Ltd. have a shot out to Space Shot in a press release yesterday, congratulating the gaming company on its debut. Of course, SpaceShot contestants are competing to win tickets for Rocketplane flights, so you’d expect a congratulatory note. MSNBC’s Alan Boyle follows up with SpaceShot’s Sam Dinkin in a blog post, and finds that […] Virgin Galactic sent an update to subscribers of its email list on Wednesday. The update isn’t posted on its web site, so here’s a summary: Virgin announced last week its first “Founder” from Dubai, an artist named Namira Salim. (An article from over five years ago described her as a “sculptor, painter, musician and a […] Australian-born NASA astronaut Andy Thomas has a vision for Woomera, the long-forgotten Australian launch site: a “10-year plan to use the Outback site to send international tourists into space and launch satellites”, according to The Advertiser, an Adelaide newspaper. Thomas has suggested that the Australian government spend A$150 million (US$110 million) over ten years to […] That leading publication of the space industry, Insurance Journal, follows up a report on the web site of Lloyd’s of London that the insurer, famous for taking on risks conventional insurers shun, is considering providing coverage for Virgin Galactic. The insurance would cover the “hull value” of Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo vehicles; the cost would depend on […] Back in the bad old days of the Cold War, many “Kremlinologists” were forced to divine changes in the Soviet government and policy by keeping track of who was on the podium to review parades in Red Square, and just what was being shown on parade. That’s an easy task compared to figuring out what […] An investment column in Wired News focused yesterday on the emerging space tourism industry. The summary of the column is that opportunities for regular investors are pretty limited: few companies are publicly traded, and others rely on either a single wealthy individual (Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, John Carmack) or have investment requirements beyond the reach […] Virgin Galactic has been in discussions with Bigelow Aerospace about the possible development of space hotels using Bigelow’s inflatable module technology, according to an article in Hotel Magazine. Richard Branson said in Dubai last week that Virgin Galactic is considering using Bigelow’s modules and unspecified space transportation systems to develop an orbital hotel: We are […] The Seattle Times scores an interview with Charles Simonyi, the former Microsoft developer who signed a contract yesterday to fly to the ISS as a space tourist. While some people might be content to float around in weightlessness and spend the day looking out the window, Simonyi wants to play a more active role on […] |
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