MSNBC’s Alan Boyle checks on the potential profitability of space tourism in his wrapup of the first day of the International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight in Las Cruces, NM. Peter Diamandis says that he doesn’t expect “real profits” for such companies until about 2012, four years after he expects commercial flights to begin. “You didn’t […]
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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 […] “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 […] 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 […] 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 […] A couple of former X Prize teams plan on appearing, albeit not competing, at the X Prize Cup next month. Via the Lunar Lander Challenge blog is a press release from the da Vinci Project announcing that they plan to participate in the Cup and “show casing a new design”, and well as planning some […] Tickets are now available for the X Prize Cup in New Mexico next month. (Well, maybe not available at the moment I write this Thursday morning: the X Prize cup server was down.) Tickets cost $10/day for adults and $5/day for children and students; two-day passes cost $15 for adults and $10 for students and […] 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, […] For the curious who weren’t there (or were there but didn’t bring a camera), I’ve uploaded some images of the NewSpace 2006 conference to Flickr. It is primarily shots of speakers and panels, but also one of the more interesting items from the auction, as well as a zero-g wedding dress. The new web site for the upcoming X Prize Cup is now online, a few days (or few weeks) later than planned. The site has information about what events are planned for the two days of the event (October 20-21), as well as travel information for those who plan to attend and webcast information for […] |
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