by David Todd | Jul 28, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
The premature in-flight deployment of the feathered tail plane speed braking system was the primary cause of the destruction of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo (VSS Enterprise) on 31 October 2015, the formal investigation into the accident has concluded. The US...
by David Todd | May 15, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, Russia, Soyuz
Sarah Brightman, singer, dancer and former wife of the successful theatre composer, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, has pulled out of her planned space tourist Soyuz flight to the International Space Station (ISS) which was to take place in September 2015. Brightman cited...
by David Todd | Feb 23, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, Space Shuttle, SpaceX
NASA astronaut, Barry Wilmore, along with fellow astronaut, Terry Virts, ventured outside of the International Space Station on 21 February 2014, in the first of three EVA assignments to prepare the ISS with docking equipment to accept US Commercial crew spacecraft....
by David Todd | Jan 29, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Soyuz, SpaceX
The days of the Russian space programme extracting pay cheques out of NASA may soon be coming to an end if NASA’s commercial crew launch schedule occurs as planned. At a press conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, NASA and representatives...
by David Todd | Jan 6, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX
While it may have been the choice of many space observers, NASA’s decision to eschew the Sierra Nevada Corp’s Dream Chaser mini-shuttle design from further commercial crew funding stands after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) rejected Sierra...
by David Todd | Dec 16, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, exploration, NASA, Science, SLS
While it occupies just a small portion of the spending in the trillion dollar budget of the US Government, as that was passed by Congress and the US Senate, NASA unexpectedly found itself a winner at this year’s throw of the dice. The Administration has been...
