Space Adventures announced yesterday that Tom Jones (the former astronaut, not the singer) has signed on the company’s advisory board. Jones is a veteran of four shuttle missions and recently published a memoir of his days as an astronaut, Sky Walking. “I’m impressed with the level of focus and dedication at Space Adventures in opening […]
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Last month we mentioned Mark Rocket, a New Zealand businessman whose dedication to flying on Virgin Galactic went so far that he changed his last name to Rocket. It turns out Mr. Rocket is quite the entrepreneur: besides his own personal web site, he has the “Rocket Network” of businesses, primarily related to internet services […] A CNET News.com article about a speech Greg Olsen gave at a San Francisco conference this week provides some general details about his experiences as a space tourist, but also some interesting insight into how he got interested in taking the Soyuz trip to the ISS in the first place: A New Jersey resident, Olsen […] Space Adventures announced today that Daisuke “Dice-K” Enomoto has been officially confirmed as a member of the Soyuz TMA-9 crew that will fly to the ISS in September, alongside Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria. Enomoto had, of course, been in training for this flight for months. Anousheh Ansari was also named […] Recently-retired NASA astronaut Eileen Collins returned to her hometown of Elmira, New York, over the weekend, giving the commencement address at Elmira College. The local newspaper, the Elmira Star-Gazette, used the opportunity to publish excerpts of previous interviews with Collins, including this question on space tourism: What is your take on private space travel, and […] As you may have already heard, the trustees of the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust awarded the first Heinlein Prize to Peter Diamandis last week. The prize, designed to reward practical contributions to space commercialization, went to Diamandis for his role in establishing the X Prize, among other space-related accomplishments. (Pat Bahn identified […] While many astronauts have spoken favorably of space tourism, a couple of current and former astronauts recently were more skeptical. In a speech this week in Pensacola, Florida, former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan turned “sarcastic”, noting the costs of orbital spaceflight: When it came to space tourism, Sullivan’s tone turned sarcastic. It costs $10,000 for each […] One New Zealander is really looking forward to taking a suborbital flight on Virgin Galactic. How much? The New Zealand newspaper The Press reports that he recently changed his name to “Mark Rocket”. Seriously. (Mr. Rocket would not disclose his previous name.) He is apparently one of Virgin Galactic’s “Founders”, the elite group of 100 […] Miller Lite is kicking off a new ad campaign this month, called “Man Laws”, who are crafted by, of course, “Men of the Square Table”. Joining the likes of Burt Reynolds, Eddie Griffin, and Jerome Bettis at the Square Table is SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie. Binnie doesn’t get much face time—and only one line—in the […] In an interview in this week’s issue of The Space Review, former House Speaker (and potential 2008 presidential candidate talks about a variety of space issues, including space tourism. It sounds like he’d be willing to buy a suborbital ticket, although it’s not clear how much he’d be willing to pay: TSR: Beyond participating in […] |
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