by Rob Coppinger | Apr 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS
Elon Musk, Space Exploration Technologies’ chief executive and chief technology officer, spoke at the Space Foundation’s 25th National Space Symposium on 1 April 2009 Click here to listen to part one Click here to listen to part two Hear Musk refer to the...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
I had heard a rumour that Virgin Galactic had approached Cable News Network, aka CNN, and offered them a seat, exclusively, a one time offer to a global news organisation for a ride on SpaceShip Two; and it sort of made sense considering a lot of...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 29, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, ESA, exploration, JAXA, NASA, Space tourism
This week Hyperbola is coming from the US of A and in particular two spaceflight conferences. They are, the Space Foundation’s National Space Symposium, usually at the beginning of which there are protesters outside so one wonders if that will happen again this...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 24, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
Hyperbola had heard that EADS Astrium had shelved for the time being its aspirations for the suborbital market and now the European space company has confirmed the rumour to this blog with the following statement: “The world economic situation has created a...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 20, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space Insurance, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Click here to listen to the final fifth part of Hyperbola’s series of podcasts that will in total make up the 45min interview with Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn held on 4 March 2009 in the company’s London offices. During this 9min 37s interview...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 16, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space Insurance, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Click here to listen to part four of Hyperbola’s series of podcasts that will in total make up the 45min interview with Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn held on 4 March 2009 in the company’s London offices. During this 7min 21s interview hear...
