The New Mexico Economic Development Department’s occasionally-updated Pulsar blog reports that “basic infrastructure” is being installed at the Southwest Regional Spaceport site in southern New Mexico. Proposals for the overall architecture of the spaceport design are due next week, with a final design to be announced this summer. The design, the post notes, should be […]
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Greg Olsen is scheduled to be in Los Angeles Thursday for the ORBIT awards dinner at ISDC, but he has something arguably more important to do today. The Newark Star-Ledger reports that Olsen plans to announce a $5 million donation to his alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University, today. Normally in response to such a donation, […] I’ll be heading out late tomorrow to LA for the International Space Development Conference. This promises to be one of the biggest space conferences in recent memory (at least outside of IAF and AIAA events) with over 1,000 people registered so far. The conference schedule is filled with interesting presentations (at least judging by their […] Marc Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut and until late last year the head of the Canadian Space Agency (he resigned to make an unsuccessful run for a seat in Parliament), visited a school recently in Westmount, a suburb of Montreal where he lives. An article in the Westmount Examiner recounts his comments about space tourism: […] Michael Belfiore reports on his blog on a speech given by Burt Rutan before high school students in Mojave. Rutan said that the town hasn’t changed much since he moved there in 1974, but that over the next four to five years “Mojave’s going to look a whole lot different.” With what he claims to […] In the first of what he plans to be monthly essays in The Space Review on the progress of his business, Sam Dinkin of SpaceShot describes the process that went behind the selection of his company’s motto, “Astrae Popularetis”. The phrase can mean “You shall see the Stars belong to the People”, but he notes […] In an article in this week’s issue of The Space Review, I write about the Teachers in Space program being kicked off by the Space Frontier Foundation. The project seeks to provide teachers with the experience of traveling in space by giving them rides on suborbital vehicles. While not strictly space tourism, a project like […] And they’re coming to a school or an airport near you, at least if you’re in New Jersey. NorthJersey.com reports on an appearance by Brian Binnie, SpaceShipOne pilot, at the Lincoln Park Airport in New Jersey on Saturday. “It’s like meeting Charles Lindbergh or the Wright brothers,” said airport manager Peter DeRosa. Meanwhile, two days […] |
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