by Rob Coppinger | Jun 13, 2009 | ESA, exploration, History, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
It is a bright and sunny Saturday (13 June) morning here in le Bourget, France where preparations continue for the 100th Paris air show that will see a whole of lot of aeronautics stuff and plenty of European spaceflight industry and agency activity to fill the...
by David Todd | May 26, 2009 | Constellation, COTS, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Russia, Soyuz
Poor Charles Bolden. If he does actually become NASA administrator he’ll have a flat budget, the job of retiring the world’s only reusable spaceplane (and a few thousand workers), preside over a divisive review of US human spaceflight...
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 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 | Mar 31, 2009 | ESA, Russia, Soyuz, Spaceport
The mobile gantry for the Samara Space Center Soyuz 2-1a (and eventually 2-1b) rocket’s CNES/European Space Agency spaceport in French Guiana is being constructed in Russia. Once check it is to be dismantled before its trip to South America The image is from the...
