This would require the consensus of the other spacefaring nations in the world, Head of Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin said. He joined Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general of the European Space Agency, and Steve MacLean, president of the Canadian Space Agency, in urging wider cooperation with China in space exploration. NASA is forbidden by Congress from engaging with the Chinese space program. 
NASA's recommendations to space-faring commercial entities and nations, for spacecraft planning to visit U.S. lunar heritage sites. 
Privately owned Space Exploration Technologies is poised to make a test run to the International Space Station early Tuesday, but visiting the orbital outpost is just the beginning of the company's grand plan to give humanity a toehold on Mars.
"Our goal is to revolutionize space transport, so we'll be doing every kind of space transport, except for suborbital. We'll launch satellites of all shapes and sizes, service the space station with cargo and crew, and then the long-term objective is to develop a space transport system that will enable humanity to become a multi-planet species," company founder and chief executive officer Elon Musk said in an interview with SpaceflightNow.com. Via Stratocumulus 
Researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland have made substantial progress toward harnessing the energy of the Sun from space. This solar power from space has the potential to change the future of renewable energy. 
Liberty est le nom qu’a choisi de donner ATK à son projet de lanceur et de capsule permettant d’atteindre l’orbite basse de la Terre – celle où se trouve la station spatiale internationale.
Et c’est le moteur Vulcain, celui qui équipe le lanceur Ariane, qui a été choisi pour propulser le second étage de la fusée. 
Former NASA astronaut Story Musgrave is neither happy nor excited about the current state of the space administration or about the commercial COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) program.
“We’re not going anywhere… there is no where, there is no what, and there is no when,” the former astronaut told Atkeison. “There is no Mars program, none. There is also no Moon program. There is no asteroid program… there’s no what we’re gonna do and no when we’re gonna do it.” 
OVER the next few years, China plans to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars building the aerospace industries of the future. The country hosts more than two-thirds of the airports now under construction around the world. It will be the biggest growth market for Boeing and Airbus, though China is investing heavily in developing home-grown rivals in the hope of dominating the aviation markets of the 21st century. 
The private spaceflight company SpaceX is poised to launch a robotic capsule toward the International Space Station Saturday (May 19) on a test flight that, if successful, could be a watershed moment for the commercial space industry. But while SpaceX has a NASA contract to provide cargo deliveries to the space station, the company and other private spaceship developers are looking to a future beyond NASA funding.
The Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX is one of several aerospace firms who are competing for NASA funding under the third and final phase of NASA's commercial crew development program. Proposals for this stage of the competition, called Commercial Crew integrated Capability(CCiCap), require companies to present a complete launch system — rocket and vehicle — for consideration. Via Stratocumulus 
"ATK has announced it will be ready to put humans into orbit by 2015, potentially ahead of Space X. The tech they use for Liberty is based on the now-canceled NASA Ares rocket as well as the European Ariane V vehicle." 
Planetary scientist and Northern Virginia resident Tom Jones is an astronaut who flew on the space shuttle four times. With a long-standing interest in asteroids, Jones recently signed on as scientific adviser for a new company, Planetary Resources, which has a big, science-fiction-esque goal: profiting from raw materials in space. The company is bankrolled by space business veterans and bigwigs from Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Google guys Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and filmmaker James Cameron. Jones spoke in a recent interview about this new venture and the future of life in space.— by Brian Vastag 
Last month, a group of starry-eyed billionaires—including Googlers Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and director James Cameron—told the tech world about their latest, craziest scheme. The Avatar-esque plan: send robotic rocket ships into outer space to chase down asteroids, mount them, and mine them for precious metals. The company they’re backing is called Planetary Resources, and it aims to be prospecting for platinum on space rocks within the next few years.
How did the tech world respond? It yawned, rolled over, and returned to its collective dream about the next hot social-media startup. My message to the tech world: Wake up! This is outer space we’re talking about! This is awesome! Via Stratocumulus 
The Orion spacecraft production line is starting up at Kennedy Space Center, and John Nesbitt is more than ready to begin building the capsule for a first flight test in early 2014. 
INTERVIEW - Le «Bad astronomer» revient sur les plans de la compagnie Planetory Resources qui a annoncé un ambitieux plan dont l'objectif final est de devenir la première compagnie minière de l'espace, en exploitant les ressources des astéroïdes géocroiseurs (dont l'orbite passe près de la Terre).
Phil Plait, qui a travaillé plus de 10 ans avec Hubble et tient désormais le blog Bad Astronomy pour le magazine Discovery, explique pourquoi le projet n'est pas aussi fou qu'il en a l'air. |
Elon Musk posted the following today about their Grasshopper VTOL prototype for a reusable first stage. 
Russia and Japan want to explore the Moon, and in a big way.
They're not talking about "repeating what mankind achieved 40 years ago". They're talking about "establishing permanent bases". 
The SuperDraco can generate an impressive 15,000 lbs of thrust (120,000 lbs altogether) – not enough to take off from Earth – but enough to allow the craft to navigate to Mars, land, take off again and then return to Earth and perform a powered landing. 
So, you are on the moon and need to build a new structure. As one of the first lucky colonists there, what are you going to use? Lunarcrete of course. 
For the last half-century, space flight has been the domain of the world's superpowers.
Now, Hawthorne firm SpaceX will soon attempt to launch a craft into orbit and dock it with the International Space Station, a first for a private company. Success could alter how the U.S. runs missions. 
More than 2,000 people have applied for jobs with Planetary Resources, officials said. 
NASA says Boeing is best equipped to provide two cryogenic upper stages derived from the Delta 4 rocket to power the agency's Orion capsule on a test flight around the moon in 2017 and send astronauts on a voyage to lunar orbit in 2021, according to documents posted on a federal government procurement website. ESA wishes to investigate the feasibility of a novel and commercially sustainable approach for access to space for Europe. Read about Elon Musk's Space X joining forces with Robert Bigelow's Bigelow Aerospace to market opportunities for people to fly into space on SpaceX's crew space transportation system to inflatable space stations built by Bigelow Aerospace. 
Asterank Estimates the Mining Value of Over 580,000 Asteroid 
Russia is ready and willing to partner on a mission to Mars, a Russian space official said.
"Currently, there is no country that could organize a manned spaceflight to Mars and a safe return," Sergey Saveliev, the deputy head of Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), said April 12 at the United Nations headquarters here to mark theInternational Day of Human Space Flight. 
In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245.
Ok. Then, I demand a weekly shuttle to Mars by 2015. Thanks.
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