One day Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft may accommodate tourists in much the same way Russia flies paying passengers on its Soyuz missions, according to a Reuters report. The head of the China National Space Administration, China’s rough equivalent to NASA, said he was open to that possibility, although not immediately. “Once our technology is more mature, […]
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It’s just a little over week until the X Prize Cup, er, Wirefly X Prize Cup takes place in New Mexico. Some updates: Earlier this week the X Prize Foundation announced that Wirefly.com, an online mobile phone retailer, will be the title sponsor of the event. Although the press release came out Tuesday, logos incorporating […] So what good is space tourism, rocket racing, or other seemingly-trivial endeavors? They’re actually very important, Taylor Dinerman argues in this week’s edition of The Space Review. Such ventures can stimulate interest in the space industry among students, and a vibrant industry filled with small developers is as important to the overall space field as […] The “Vox Populi” section of today’s Savannah Morning News provides responses from residents of the Georgia city to this question: “Entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari paid a reported $10 million to be the first private female space tourist to the international space station. If tourist travel to the stars becomes affordably feasible in our lifetime, would you […] Wal-Mart is coming to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, and it’s all thanks to Spaceport America. That’s the premise, at least of an article in the Las Cruces Sun-News about new development in the town, not far from the commercial spaceport that will serve Virgin Galactic and other customers. Also headed to T or C: […] This year’s edition of the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book includes a gift that it calls “genuinely out of this world”: a charter suborbital flight on SpaceShipTwo. It’s just like it sounds: an SS2 flight for you and five of your closest friends as some point after Virgin Galactic begins passenger service in 2009. And it […] You’d think that one of the first public appearances by Anousheh Ansari would attract a fair amount of media attention. However, most of the media coverage of a press conference held yesterday in Washington to kick of the Archon X Prize, the $10-million genomics prize the X Prize Foundation is running, mentioned her only in […] An article today in the Decatur (Ala.) Daily about the FTC’s approval of the United Launch Alliance includes this passage: “Decatur might want to rename itself Space Port America,” said Loren Thompson, Ph.D., a military and aerospace analyst at the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va., and a Lockheed consultant. Since Thompson immerses himself in military […] The X Prize Foundation issued a media advisory today confirming that Anousheh Ansari will be in Washington DC tomorrow morning to appear at a press conference where the foundation will be announcing their new genomics prize. (I have a meeting conflict and can’t get out of the office to attend, unfortunately.) No other appearances or […] |
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X Prize 2nd anniversary
Today marks the second anniversary of SpaceShipOne’s capture of the $10-million Ansari X Prize with its second suborbital spaceflight in under a week. (Of course, they didn’t officially get the check until a ceremony in St. Louis the following month; details, details.) MSNBC’s Alan Boyle reflects on the anniversary and asks, in essence: dude, where’s […]