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The Orange County Register published an interview yesterday with Michael Lopez-Alegria, who will fly to the ISS in September as a member of the Expedition 14 crew. Reporter Gary Robbins brings up the topic of space tourism in the interview: Q: This fall, Daisuke Enomoto, a Japanese entrepreneur, will spend eight days on the station […] A roundup of a few space tourism-related items from the last several days: Wyle Labs Inc. is creating a new business unit “focusing on providing human spaceflight services to the emerging commercial ‘space tourist’ industry”. The Commercial Human Spaceflight Services unit, led by Vernon McDonald, will offer a variety of medical, training, and operations support […] Business 2.0 magazine has a brief interview with Richard Branson that touches on a number of subjects, including why he got involved in space tourism: And why space travel now? NASA has always looked at it as a government-run research program – never thinking of it as human beings, individuals wanting to go into space. […] He may be, so long as you believe the British press. According to the brief report, Prince Harry has discussed fly on Virgin Galactic with Richard Branson’s son, Sam, who is a close friend of Harry’s older brother, Prince William. A Virgin Galactic spokesman quoted in the report would only say that the company is […] Many readers are already familiar with the “first honeymooners in space”, George Whitesides and Loretta Hidalgo, who are among Virgin Galactic’s founders. However, a couple plans to one-up them by getting married in space, The Times of Northwest Indiana reports. Cindy Cashman and Mitch Walling are planning to tie the knot on a Rocketplane XP […] 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 […] Daisuke “Dice-K” Enomoto, the next orbital space tourist, appeared at a press conference Thursday in Houston along with members of Expedition 14, the next long-duration ISS crew. The press conference itself didn’t get much press attention, since the STS-121 shuttle mission to the ISS is in progress, but NewScientist.com offers an overview. Briefly, he’s eager […] SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie has another honor to add to his collection: he received an honorary doctorate from Aberdeen University Monday. Binnie is the first Scotsman in space; his father is a former physicist at the university. Binnie said it was great honor to return to Scotland and receive the degree, certainly nearly as big […] Bryan Singer is best known these days as the director of the newly-released blockbuster Superman Returns. But he also has a secret identity that he revealed to a Malaysian newspaper: he is a Founder: Given all the money in the world, what kind of film would you’d like to do? I would like to shoot […] Eileen Borgeson, the artist who designed the giant trophy given to the Dennis Tito Award winners at the ORBIT Awards ceremony last month, announced this week that she has created an ORBIT Awards poster that is “Free to all Earth Citizens”. (Aliens, presumably, will have to pay some pricey interstellar shipping-and-handling charges.) We terrestrials can […] |
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