by Rob Coppinger | May 29, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight
I am getting plenty of material from the International Academy of Astronautics’ symposium on private human access to space, here are a couple of images to wet your appetites before I can start uploading the more interesting stuff
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 4, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight
Hobbyspace.com had a series of posts about: Mojave air and space port resolving its licence difficulties after energetic materials storage and handling dispute with the FAA Spaceport Kiruna developments and methane thruster work Rocketplane XP info a link to an Holman...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 30, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight
This interview with hotelier and commercial spaceflight entrepreneur Robert Bigelow qoutes him as saying he is to invest in a capsule that could fit on a Khrunichev Space Center Proton, a Lockeed Martin Atlas 5 or a Space Exploration Technologies’ Falcon 9. I...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 5, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight
Work has begun on Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket’s Cape Canaveral launch pad that will be used for its NASA Commercial Orbital Transprotation Services (COTS) demonstration programme flights. SpaceX’s first...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 26, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight
European built International Space Station module Node 2 called Harmony sits in the payload bay of NASA Space Shuttle Discovery in-orbit on flight day two of mission STS-120. While NASA’s Discovery crew prepare to move Harmony into position at the ISS today...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 17, 2007 | Commercial human spaceflight
Hobbyspace.com has this link to a USA Today article about the US laws for personal spaceflight Holloman AFB has created its website about the X Prize Cup event it is hosting Meanwhile NASA has given the go-ahead for the 23 October launch of Space Shuttle Discovery for...
