by Rob Coppinger | Apr 3, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, Space tourism
Space Adventures chief executive Eric Anderson told the media today that if the expected flight of a Kazakh cosmonaut does not go ahead on 30 September this year onboard Soyuz TMA 16 then one of his company’s customers might go to the International Space...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 3, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
Spacejet (above) has the full support of the leadership of EADS Astrium and it is a long term project for a long term market, Hugues Laporte-Weywada, Astrium’s senior vice president and deputy chief technical officer told Hyperbola in an exclusive interview at...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, space station, Space tourism
*** NEWS TELE-CONFERENCE *** SPACE ADVENTURES’ CEO ERIC ANDERSON FRIDAY, APRIL 3 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT) SPACE ADVENTURES’ CEO ERIC ANDERSON TO DISCUSS FUTURE OF SPACE TOURISM, AVAILABLE SEATS FOR UPCOMING ORBITAL FLIGHTS WHAT:...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, ESA, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital
In June 2008 Flight reported that the European Space Agency had concluded, after some preliminary data, that suborbital passengers have a smaller carbon footprint than those that travel on airlinersAt the time Flight was told that the data would not be released...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS
Elon Musk, Space Exploration Technologies’ chief executive and chief technology officer, spoke at the Space Foundation’s 25th National Space Symposium on 1 April 2009 Click here to listen to part one Click here to listen to part two Hear Musk refer to the...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
I had heard a rumour that Virgin Galactic had approached Cable News Network, aka CNN, and offered them a seat, exclusively, a one time offer to a global news organisation for a ride on SpaceShip Two; and it sort of made sense considering a lot of...
