by Rob Coppinger | Oct 11, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Orion, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, Space Shuttle, Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic
So Hyperbola has finally touched down in Daejeon in south Korea, after a scorching reentry from the Oort cloud, or was that just the effect of the Korean spicy Kimchi pickle and the even more spicy red pepper paste, Kochu Chang, they put on most of their food? Either...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
Hyperbola is launching to the Oort cloud for a week’s R&R from today and will be returning via Daejeon, Korea from the 12 October. In Daejeon Hyperbola will be blogging from the International Astronautical Congress, where the world’s space...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, NASA, Personal spaceflight
Congressional support for NASA’s return to the Moon Constellation programme can now be seen to have made a material impact on efforts to get commercial ventures underway, in this story on flightglobal.com Back in April Hyperbola reported how the $150 million for...
by Rob Coppinger | Sep 30, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS, NASA, Technology
If starting and then stopping, within a week, a procurement process for human rating commercial crew transport vehicles seems strange then the sum of money that came attached might seem even strangerNASA has told Hyperbola: “We received a total of $1...
by Rob Coppinger | Sep 23, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism
In a surprise move that may see Lockheed frozen out of a Bigelow, Commercial Crew Development progamme collaboration the Boeing company has announced its teaming with Bigelow ST. LOUIS, Sept. 23, 2009 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] submitted a proposal to NASA...
by Rob Coppinger | Sep 11, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Soyuz, Space tourism
On Friday 4 September I spoke to former NASA astronaut and Excalibur Almaz (EA) executive vice president for technical operations Leroy Chiao about the commercial orbital tourism venture that is using Soviet developed space vehicles. In the extended portion of...
