The next time you’re in the airport in Bakersfield, California (which may well be the first time), you’ll be greeted by a full-scale replica of SpaceShipOne. The SS1 model is hanging from the ceiling of the Bill Thomas Terminal of Meadows Field, the city’s commercial airport. Burt Rutan and Mike Melvill attended the unveiling Thursday, […]
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Yesterday SPACE.com ran an article on the revelations regarding Blue Origin’s suborbital vehicle development program that came from its draft environmental assessment. There’s not much here that hasn’t been reported earlier, although Leonard David does get some interesting perspectives from John Garvey, who worked on the DC-X (upon which the New Shepard vehicle appears to […] British media, such as The Scotsman newspaper, reported that Scotland is being considered for a Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceport, in particular an existing air base, RAF Lossiemouth. Other than specifically identifying a proposed site, though, there’s not much new here, since Virgin Galactic officials have previously indicated they are considering Scotland for a European location, […] SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie has another honor to add to his collection: he received an honorary doctorate from Aberdeen University Monday. Binnie is the first Scotsman in space; his father is a former physicist at the university. Binnie said it was great honor to return to Scotland and receive the degree, certainly nearly as big […] |
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