by Rob Coppinger | Nov 5, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
Hear Scaled Composites’ founder and chief technology officer Burt Rutan talk about SpaceShipTwo’s (SS2) flight frequency and alternate applications at the 2008 Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin In this...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 22, 2007 | Personal spaceflight
Hobbyspace.com has a series of entries on; thoughts about Kistler’s rocket designs the latest on Rocketplane’s renewed suborbital focus the International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight and the Google Lunar prize and SpaceShipTwo interior...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 5, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Satellites
NASASpaceflight.com apparently has some detail about NASA’s Lunar Lander progress. Flight reported on the Lander’s project office’s plans back in July with an expected first design analysis cycle to be completed by August. Russia is to provide...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
Just as SpaceX is presently the clear leader in the development of new orbital transportation systems, Virgin Galactic is now the only obvious candidate for the nascent suborbital market in the next few years. Unless Jeff Bezos’ ultra secret Blue Origin team spring a...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 1, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
Low Earth orbit tourism and NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration programme are not obviously linked but the intentions of one of COTS participants, California based-Space Exploration Technologies, could see commercial human...
