Space Adventures announced today that Daisuke “Dice-K” Enomoto has been officially confirmed as a member of the Soyuz TMA-9 crew that will fly to the ISS in September, alongside Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria. Enomoto had, of course, been in training for this flight for months. Anousheh Ansari was also named […]
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The launch of the first subscale prototype of Bigelow Aerospace’s inflatable habitats is being delayed by about a month. The company announced Tuesday that the launch, which had been scheduled for June 16 (and is still listed as such on the official Roskosmos launch schedule) will be delayed to July 4-14. “This delay is necessary […] The Australian news service AAP reports that pilots with Virgin Blue, the discount carrier that operates in Australia and New Zealand, have been invited to apply to become pilots for Virgin Galactic. Similar offers have been made to pilots for other Virgin Airlines; two of Virgin Blue’s 572 pilots are expected to be selected. About […] Recently-retired NASA astronaut Eileen Collins returned to her hometown of Elmira, New York, over the weekend, giving the commencement address at Elmira College. The local newspaper, the Elmira Star-Gazette, used the opportunity to publish excerpts of previous interviews with Collins, including this question on space tourism: What is your take on private space travel, and […] Sam Dinkin, founder of Space Shot, the company started earlier this year to provide suborbital space tourism prizes to people who win its weather prediction contests, let me know that the company is providing a survey to gauge interest in potential improvements to the game and the site, including different price points for entering the […] Michael Belfiore revealed yesterday afternoon that not only was Bigelow Aerospace planning to unveil a new web site, it was going to announce a new service: it will fly photos or other small mementos on its prototype modules it will be launching starting this year. The first Genesis module, scheduled for launch on June 16 […] |
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