by Rob Coppinger | Nov 27, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
Hyperbola has learnt the identity of the first customer for Xcor Aerospace’s Lynx suborbital vehicle and this blog can say now thatthe individual is a northern European (no it’s not Richard Branson), is male, is from a country near to Germany, has worked...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 24, 2008 | Constellation, exploration, NASA, Suborbital
For those of you able to make it all the way through the 3h webcast video of the September lunar exploration industry briefing day there is a bit at the end that makes for interesting what-if pondering The Altair lunar lander project office deputy manager Clinton...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 6, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital
At the 29 October 2008 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) COMmercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) meeting a John Sloan gave a presentation on the FAA’s office of commercial space transportation’s (AST) international strategy that...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 14, 2007 | Suborbital
Hobbyspace.com has a series of links to X-15 related material, including an X-15 remote control model project and a link to some Chuck Yeager stuff, as it was the 60th anniversary of his supersonic flight today.
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...
