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An article in an El Paso alternative newspaper, Newspaper Tree, describes a boom taking place in Las Cruces, NM. What’s causing the boom? It turns out that retirees are flocking to the city as a low-cost alternative to locales in Arizona and Florida, although writer Jeff Berg had this to say: Las Cruces ‘boom’ can […] The BBC reports that Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn is making an “informal” visit to RAF Lossiemouth, a Scottish air base that is being considered as a potential European spaceport for the space tourism company. Virgin Galactic has previously stated that they have considered northern Scotland as one of the few locations in Europe, from […] SPACE.com talks about the connection between space tourism and ecotourism. Much of that linkage is the desire to view the Earth from space, something that has awed virtually every person to fly in space to date. That also applies to suborbital space tourism: earlier this year Chuck Lauer said that the view of Earth—particularly of […] I noted when the new X Prize Cup site went live last week that there was no mention of other activities associated with the cup, like a space tourism symposium held at New Mexico State Univ. a few days before last year’s event. Yesterday someone tipped me off to the fact that, yes, that conference, […] A related item to the post earlier this week about Congressman Frank Lucas talking up the Oklahoma Spaceport in his district: in an article in the Alva Review-Courier Lucas trotted out some statistics regarding spaceflight at a town meeting. “From my research I’ve determined that 40 percent of citizens who encounter weightlessness for the first […] This week’s international edition of Newsweek has an article about the growth of space tourism. The article is pretty typical stuff, covering the major companies in the field and several of the new spaceports under development. There is one interesting nugget: “The market for commercial space tourism is expected to generate more than $1 billion […] Congressman Frank Lucas (R-OK), whose district includes the Oklahoma Spaceport, mentioned it at a town meeting in Enid, Oklahoma on Tuesday, according to an article in the Enid News and Eagle. Lucas described the activities at the spaceport, including plans by “Rocket Plane” [sic] to perform suborbital spaceflights from there. But would Lucas want to […] Alan Walton, a “self-made millionaire” in Connecticut, is one of Virgin Galactic’s initial customers, or “Founders”, and was recently interviewed by the Hartford Courant. A few interesting items he said in the interview: the complete flight (from takeoff to landing) will be two and a half hours long, with two pilots and six passengers; he […] New Mexico has been very aggressive about courting aerospace companies, in particular space tourism companies like Virgin Galactic and Starchaser Ltd., among others. A Florida newspaper reports that similar incentives have lured a Florida-based aircraft company to set up a factory south of Albuquerque. The reaction to this move, from one consultant: “Florida supports its […] The Orange County Register published an interview yesterday with Michael Lopez-Alegria, who will fly to the ISS in September as a member of the Expedition 14 crew. Reporter Gary Robbins brings up the topic of space tourism in the interview: Q: This fall, Daisuke Enomoto, a Japanese entrepreneur, will spend eight days on the station […] |
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