The AP and the British newspaper The Independent both published articles in recent days about Blue Origin’s plans for a suborbital vehicle that will fly from the company’s facilities in West Texas. The articles are based on details previously disclosed in the company’s draft environmental assessment report, which will be the subject of a public […]
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In just under three months the X Prize Cup will take place in Las Cruces, New Mexico. However, so far there have been few confirmed details about what is going on. The X Prize Foundation had planned to unveil more details on a revamped web site last month, but as of Saturday morning the site’s […] I’ll be travelling to Las Vegas later today to attend the NewSpace 2006 conference run by the Space Frontier Foundation, as well as some other activities. Some space tourism-related highlights of the upcoming conference: Thursday: Constellation Services International and Space Adventures will be providing updates about their lunar mission plans. Friday: Robert Bigelow will deliver […] The Space Show has a couple of recent space tourism-themed shows that may be of interest to listeners. On Sunday John Spencer of the Space Tourism Society was on the show, while tonight (Monday) at 10 pm EDT Jane Reifert of Incredible Adventures will be on the show (a recording of which should be available […] In the last several weeks I have heard from a few people who have claimed that hotel rooms in Las Cruces were already tight for October’s X Prize Cup: according to one person I talked with at the ISDC earlier this month, all the hotel rooms in Las Cruces were already booked for the weekend. […] In an ISDC presentation Saturday afternoon, Ryan Wilson of the X Prize Foundation described some innovative marketing efforts the organization is planning to promote this October’s X Prize Cup in New Mexico. In the next few weeks, he said, they play to start releasing a series of 30-40 “viral videos”: clips one to two minutes […] At ISDC Thursday night the Space Tourism Society, in conjunction with the NSS, gave out the 2006 ORBIT awards for those people and organizations who have done the most to support the space tourism industry. The official list of awardees actually excludes one person: Dennis Tito was a surprise winner of his new eponymous award, […] I’ll be heading out late tomorrow to LA for the International Space Development Conference. This promises to be one of the biggest space conferences in recent memory (at least outside of IAF and AIAA events) with over 1,000 people registered so far. The conference schedule is filled with interesting presentations (at least judging by their […] Today marks the fifth anniversary of the launch of the “first” commercial space tourist, Dennis Tito, on a Soyuz taxi flight to the ISS. (There are other “tourists” who flew in space before Tito, ranging from Helen Sharman to the politicians who got rides on the shuttle; Tito, at least, is the first tourist who […] I will be leaving shortly to go to Phoenix for Space Access ’06, the annual conference that focuses on the entrepreneurial space transportation industry, with many intersections with space tourism. I will try to post some updates during the conference through Saturday, depending on conference events and network access. |
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