by Rob Coppinger | Jun 30, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS, exploration, NASA, Personal spaceflight, space station, Space tourism, Spaceport, Technology
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation, whichly recently re-branded from Personal Spaceflight Federation, has released the statement you’ll find in the extended portion of this blog post and placed this white paper on its website In an email to journalists...
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...
by David Todd | Apr 29, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Technology
Blogosphere excitement at the prospect of $150 million, or $80 million depending upon the report you read, going directly to “commercial” development of crew transport to low Earth orbit is all misguided NASA has told HyperbolaThese are the facts:NASA is...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 14, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
At the Space Foundation’s 25th National Space Symposium Hyperbola spoke to the US Federal Aviation Administration’s associate administrator for the office of commercial space transportation George Nield The surprising part of our quick chat (the background...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 13, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
Listen here to parts, one, two and three of Rocketplane Global vice president for business development Charles Lauer’s 30min presentation on the status of the XP vehicle, given at the Space Access Society conference in Phoenix, Arizona on 4 April 2009. And...
