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Video game pioneer Richard Garriott resides in a castle-like mansion outside of Austin, Texas, that would be the fantasy dwelling for any grown-up kid. But his favorite place to live is a five-bedroom fixer-upper some 250 miles up.
Early on Wednesday 4th May 2011, in the skies above Mojave Air and Spaceport CA, SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first commercial spaceship, demonstrated its unique reentry ‘feather’ configuration for the first time. This test flight, the third in less than two weeks, marks another major milestone on the path to powered test flights and commercial operations.
Bigelow Aerospace completed an initial closed-loop test in March of a prototype environmental control and life support (ECLS) system designed to support extended crew stays inside the inflatable habitats the company is building to provide research facilities and hotel accommodations in space.
SUMMARY: This notice announces a public meeting to solicit comments and information from the public on the regulatory approach to commercial orbital human spaceflight by the FAA. This public meeting is intended to aid the FAA in its regulatory effort by receiving early input from the affected community.
You invested in Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, which became the first successful civilizan space flight and is now being commercialized by Virgin. Where do you see the space-tourism industry going in the next generation?
Two years ago, retired aerospace executive Norman Augustine headed up a commission that led the White House to scrap NASA's "unexecutable" back-to-the-moon program and focus instead on a step-by-step path to send humans beyond Earth orbit, to an asteroid by 2025, and to the environs of Mars by the 2030s.
You could probably get rich mining the moon if you had a way to get there and back. A Silicon Valley startup called Moon Express wants to sell you the vehicle to complete part of the mission.
Barney Pell co-founded the ambitious start-up Powerset in 2005 that aimed to upend the search engine market. It was later acquired by Microsoft for $100 million. Now Pell is back with a new start-up working on space exploration, Moon Express.
CAPE CANAVERAL – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) took members of the media on a tour of Launch Complex 40, where the NewSpace firm has successfully launched two of its Falcon 9 rockets and one of its Dragon spacecraft.
Guest: Bob Richards. Website: Moonexpress.com. Bob Richards joins us to talk about his new Google Lunar X PRIZE team Moon Express. Hosts: Michael Doornbos and Haley Stephenson. Email podcast@evadot.
The area will need luxury lodging to accommodate the tourists who plan to launch into suborbital space at Spaceport America, said Julia Tizard, operations manager for Virgin Galactic, the British company planning to launch spaceflights 30 miles away from T or C.
The space tourism company Virgin Galactic successfly tested the re-entry hardware on its SpaceShipTwo private spacecraft during a May 4 glide test flight. Commercial spaceflights are closer for the spacecraft.
Just as explorers during the Age of Discovery established new trade routes in pursuit of resources such as gold, silver and spices, the future explorers of space will be chasing unimaginable riches. As Peter Diamandis told the International Space Development Conference, “There are twenty-trillion-dollar checks up there, waiting to be cashed!”
The US Air Force is preparing to take a long look at how commercial space technology can help it better operate in the cosmos. The Air Force today said it will host a space test program meeting next week ahead of expected contract offerings, or Broad Agency Announcements looking to recruit commercial space providers.
I was at a very interesting event earlier this evening at NASA Ames during which SETI's Pascal Lee and Mary Roach, the author of “Packing for Mars,” discussed human missions to the Red Planet. When the topic turned during the Q&A to Elon Musk’s plans to colonize Mars, moderator Chris McKay of NASA made a bit of news.
In the second part of his interview with MM, NASA’s Bruce Pittman talks about CCDev2, competition, education, inspiration and the paradigm shift in opportunity.
Robert Bigelow, Founder and President of Bigelow Aerospace, will be the Honored Keynote Speaker at the ISDC Governors' Dinner and Gala to be held in the Davidson Center at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama on May 20. Mr. Bigelow founded Bigelow Aerospace, which is noted for developing and launching the first inflatable space habitats.
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