New Mexico has been very aggressive about courting aerospace companies, in particular space tourism companies like Virgin Galactic and Starchaser Ltd., among others. A Florida newspaper reports that similar incentives have lured a Florida-based aircraft company to set up a factory south of Albuquerque. The reaction to this move, from one consultant: “Florida supports its […]
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is taking a small step to promote the development of a European space tourism industry through a small-scale initiative announced Thursday. The “The Survey of European Privately-funded Vehicles for Commercial Human Spaceflight” will allow European companies planning vehicles intended to serve the space tourism market to submit proposals through ESA’s […] An article on the web site of Technology Review magazine argues that 2006 will see “an unprecedented number of private launches”. As evidence, the article cites the inaugural launch of the Falcon 1, the pending launch of the first Genesis inflatable module prototype by Bigelow Aerospace (now planned for Wednesday, according to the Roskosmos web […] One of the issues that space tourism operators will have to cope with as they ramp up operations in the coming years is what health requirements they set for their customers. Be too restrictive and you may exclude too many people, yet be too permissive and passengers could suffer injuries, or die, on flights, opening […] Today is the second anniversary of the first flight into space by a piloted, privately-developed spacecraft: SpaceShipOne. That flight, as well as the two X Prize-winning flights that followed in September and October of 2004, were witnessed in person by thousands in Mojave and many more on television and online–many of whom were probably interested […] You’d think there would be bigger things to worry about in Lebanon than “creating awareness” about space tourism, yet an article in The Daily Star describes a seminar last week about the potential of space tourism at the Beirut Travel Academy: “We need to create awareness,” explained Hassan al-Zein, who led the event. “Dubai is […] None other than the New York Times examines the issue of what fashionable space tourists will wear, following up on an article in The Guardian last week (see earlier coverage). The Times article, though, does feature pictures of the “weightless wedding dress” by designer Eri Matsui mentioned, but not shown, in the Guardian article. In […] An article in this week’s issue of The Economist provides an overview of the nascent space tourism industry, based in large part on events at last week’s ISDC. This is a pretty good overview of the state of the industry, examining the major companies and some of the (largely technical) issues associated with them, such […] The good news: more and more people are reading this blog. The bad news: more and more spambots are attacking this blog. So, for the time being, I have turned on comment moderation to prevent posts from being overwhelmed with spam postings. Thus, if you post a comment, there may be some time (on the […] |
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Orlando Sentinel columnist Eric Michaels recounts a trip on Zero-G’s aircraft he took earlier this year. It’s clear from his column that he enjoyed the trip; his stomach, not so much: “Trust me, I’ve never had so much fun making myself sick.” In his case, the queasiness didn’t come until after he completed all his […]