by David Todd | Mar 19, 2013 | China, NASA, On a Lighter Note
Bo Jiang, a Chinese national and space imaging expert who was working (with permission) as a contractor for National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) at NASA’s Langley space centre, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C. on 16 March as he...
by David Todd | Mar 7, 2013 | History, On a Lighter Note
While a certain major European satellite services company was recently keen to crow about their newly acquired award of a long term defence communications contract, it provided little information about the contract’s terms and conditions in its news...
by David Todd | Feb 28, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, exploration, On a Lighter Note, Science, Space tourism, Technology
Dennis Tito and his Inspiration Mars outfit has been giving full details of their plan to send humans around the planet Mars on a free return trajectory using a capsule and inflatable living area. Interestingly, they are asking for older/middle-age couples to apply...
by David Todd | Feb 11, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, On a Lighter Note, Personal spaceflight, Technology
While Reaction Engines’ rocket designer Alan Bond still hopes to see his airbreathing-rocket powered Skylon space plane design fly one day and may even ride in it inside its passenger cabin himself when it does so, he told the audience at the European AstroFest...
by David Todd | Feb 5, 2013 | Iran, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
Following the successful suborbital launch by Iran of a Rhesus monkey (albeit that there was some confusion of its identity) Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced that he wants to become an astronaut on a flight of Iran’s Kavoshgar...
by David Todd | Feb 4, 2013 | History, On a Lighter Note
While a few of our readers have gleefully pointed out the fistful of spelling errors, grammatical mistakes and typographic faults that sometimes appear in our (well mainly this writer’s) Hyperbola space blog stories, one who may now be turning in his grave will...
