by Rob Coppinger | Jul 22, 2009 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Has Scaled Composites made further changes to the rudder of its WhiteKnight Two prototype Eve? In the company’s online log for its WK2 prototype’s flight test 13 it says: “Eval control surface mods, Eval pitot probe relocation, Intstrument approach...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital
At the Royal Aeronautical Society’s 30 June 2009 space tourism conference Xcor Aerospace chief operating officer Andrew Nelson and Space Adventures vice president sales and marketing Tom Shelley answered the audiences’ questions after each giving a...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology
At the Royal Aeronautical Society’s 30 June 2009 space tourism conference Spaceport Scotland Support Group strategic development director Thomas McCallum and Swedish Space Corporation business development manager Mattias Abrahamsson answered the audiences...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
At the Royal Aeronautical Society’s 30 June 2009 space tourism conference EADS Astrium’s deputy chief technical officer Hugues Laporte-Weywada and Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn answered the audiences questions after each giving presentations Go...
by David Todd | May 26, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology
Hyperbola hears that the British Broadcasting Corporation has been in the USA filming for a new series of the science and technology programme Tomorrow’s World that was a feature of UK television from the 1960s to 2003Tomorrow’s World will apparently,...
by David Todd | May 25, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
Go here for the US Federal Aviation Administration’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee’s 20/21 May meeting presentations are now onlineIn summary the key points seem to Hyperbola to be that,the personal spaceflight industry is drawing up...
