We’re still not sure how many teams, if any, will be competing in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge at the Wirefly X Prize Cup at the end of this week, but at least we know who will be judging the competition (if, in fact, it occurs.) The X Prize Foundation announced the six judges […]
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New Scientist is on the scene at the ISPS in Las Cruces and reports that The da Vinci Project (or, more accurately, “The GoldenPalace.com Space Program – Powered by the da Vinci Project”) has unveiled designs for a new series of suborbital passenger vehicles. The XF1 is a single-person design that would initially be launched […] It’s been a commonly-held belief that people who pay to fly as tourists on Russian Soyuz missions to the ISS are helping the cash-strapped Russian space program. While Roskosmos may no longer be as desperate for money as it once was, it’s not clear exactly where those monies have gone. Reuters reports that Russian officials […] The Las Cruces Sun-News provides a final preview of the International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight, the two-day conference that starts this morning in Las Cruces. (Unfortunately I won’t be there; I don’t get into town until Wednesday night.) An interesting contrast: conference co-chair Bill Gaubatz focuses on the historical significance of the event (“[Imagine] it’s […] SpaceShot, the company offering skill contests that give people the opportunity to win a trip to space, made a few announcements yesterday. (The press release isn’t on its web site, but can be viewed on HobbySpace.) In brief, the company is setting up a Latin American unit and announced a new round of angel funding […] “Our two greatest problems are gravity and paperwork,” Wernher von Braun is credited as saying. “We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” That’s a sentiment likely shared by some of the companies hoping to compete in the Lunar Lander Challenge late this week at the Wirefly X Prize Cup. While some companies […] In an article in this week’s issue of The Space Review, Rocky Persaud reexamines the idea of “space sports” discussed last week in a Taylor Dinerman article. Persaud believes that zero-gravity sports (like the “Zero Gravity Football” his company, IPX Entertainment, is trying to develop) could spur public interest in spaceflight and space tourism. It’s […] On Tuesday and Wednesday New Mexico State University will host the second International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight (ISPS) in Las Cruces. The local newspaper, the Sun-News, offers a preview of the event, with conference organizers trying to drum up interest in the event from the local community. “There are going to be some amazing people […] David Bowie, it seems, has no desire to be a real-life Major Tom. According to a report from the entertainment news service bangshowbiz.biz, Bowie has said rumors that he has signed up to fly on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo are “total tosh”. (We’re not completely sure what “total tosh” means, but it doesn’t sound too favorable.) […] Anousheh Ansari has kept a relatively low profile since returning to the Us last week, but on Wednesday she participated in her first interview since the flight, on The Oprah Winfrey Show. If you, like me, don’t watch Oprah regularly (meaning at all), the Ansari interview segment is available online. There are no great insights […] |
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