We’re still not sure how many teams, if any, will be competing in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge at the Wirefly X Prize Cup at the end of this week, but at least we know who will be judging the competition (if, in fact, it occurs.) The X Prize Foundation announced the six judges […]
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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.) […] Anousheh Ansari has kept a relatively low profile since returning to the Us last week, but on Wednesday she participated in her first interview since the flight, on The Oprah Winfrey Show. If you, like me, don’t watch Oprah regularly (meaning at all), the Ansari interview segment is available online. There are no great insights […] 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, […] 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 […] 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 […] The Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft carrying Anousheh Ansari and two astronauts landed safely late Thursday in Kazakhstan, and Ansari appeared to be in good condition as she emerged from the capsule after landing; her husband, Hamid, was on hand to greet her. I have not seen much about her near-term post-landing plans, although she is reportedly […] Around this time tomorrow Anousheh Ansari will no longer be on the station, having joined Pavel Vinogradov and Jeffrey Williams on the Soyuz spacecraft that will take them back to Earth; landing is scheduled in Kazakhstan at approximately 9:10 pm EDT Thursday. In the meantime, Ansari speaks about the joys of weightlessness and the benefits […] Anousheh Ansari continues her blogging (or pseudo-blogging or whatever you want to call it), discussing life on the station and watching the Earth from the station. The best part,” however, she notes, “and by far my favorite view up here is the view of the universe at night. The stars up here are unbelievable… […] |
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