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 […]
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“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 […] 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.) […] 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 […] 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 […] For this week’s issue of The Space Review, I wrote a more detailed report on Thursday’s SpaceShipTwo event in New York. In addition to the details about the SS2 cabin itself, there’s some discussion about how Virgin Galactic is putting SS2 in a larger context, seeing it as a step towards low-cost orbital spaceflight, and […] I finally got around today and posted a selection of photos I took of the SpaceShipTwo event Thursday at Wired NextFest in New York on Flickr. There’s a mix of pictures of the cabin itself (including one of me trying out one of the seats) as well as the people there, including Richard Branson, Will […] Rocketplane Kistler (RpK) announced today that is has signed an agreement with Andrews Space, with the latter company taking over the role in RpK’s COTS program that had previously planned to go to Orbital. As you may recall, Orbital announced on Monday that it was backing out of plans to take on the role of […] I’m sitting in the Javits Center in New York right now, having attended the Virgin Galactic press conference earlier this morning (right now over 10,000 students are here from around the city attending the education day of Wired NextFest, which runs through this weekend.) At the press conference Richard Branson and other Virgin Galactic officials […] |
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