by David Todd | Oct 28, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight, Space Shuttle, Technology
The Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser, one of the commercial spacecraft hoping to be used to provide regular transportation services to NASA astronauts has had its first glide test after being airdropped from a helicopter – and crashed on landing. The pilotless test...
by David Todd | Oct 25, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Space tourism
While we at the Flightglobal Hyperbola spaceflight blog do sometomes go “off piste” as we write about other subjects with only loose links to spaceflight, we do however like to draw a line to define exactlly where space (and space stories) start and...
by David Todd | Aug 14, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services
The plane spotters website amcaronline has noted that the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation reserved has booked sixty aircraft registration numbers begining with “N” ready for commercial space travel. The first suborbital SpaceShipTwo rocket...
by David Todd | May 31, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, Seradata News
Virgin Galactic has hired two new pilots for its SpaceShipTwo flights. Frederick “CJ” Sturckow is a former US Marine Corps “Top Gun” fighter pilot and an ex-NASA astronaut who flew four times (STS-88, STS-105, STS-117 and...
by David Todd | Apr 30, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Virgin Galactic has released some video of its SpaceShipTwo making its engine firing and then going supersonic. And it is apparent from the footage that the design still has a slight wing rocking issue as afflicted its predecessor SpaceShipOne which had a...
by David Todd | Feb 28, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, exploration, On a Lighter Note, Science, Space tourism, Technology
Dennis Tito and his Inspiration Mars outfit has been giving full details of their plan to send humans around the planet Mars on a free return trajectory using a capsule and inflatable living area. Interestingly, they are asking for older/middle-age couples to apply...
