by Rob Coppinger | Sep 23, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism
In a surprise move that may see Lockheed frozen out of a Bigelow, Commercial Crew Development progamme collaboration the Boeing company has announced its teaming with Bigelow ST. LOUIS, Sept. 23, 2009 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] submitted a proposal to NASA...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 12, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
The blogosphere is all abuzz with the outcome of yesterday’s final public meeting of the Review of US human space flight plans committeeHyperbola, despite being in Washington DC this week and the US for the past two and a bit weeks, has been somewhat hampered in...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 3, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Russia, Space Shuttle
Hyperbola understands that the following will be options in the US Review of human spaceflight plans committee report that is to be about 100-pages long;A Space Shuttle extension with more flights beyond any “stretching out” of the current manifest The...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 13, 2009 | International Space Station, JAXA
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIB ground test vehicle participated in a ground test at its Tanegashima Space Center launch site on 11 July. The test took the vehicle all the way through the launch procedure to the...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 7, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Space Shuttle, Technology
So now we see that some parts of the media are getting all excited about the Shuttle derived Heavy Lift Vehicle. This presentation is, Hyperbola thinks, from the NASA technical team that is reviewing the original work carried out by the Space Shuttle Programme (SSP)...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 7, 2009 | ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station
At the Paris air show Hyperbola got to interview three of the European Space Agency’s new astronauts, Tim Peake, Andy Mogensen and Samantha Cristoforetti. Go here to listen to the astronaut podcast Peake is the UK’s first ESA astronaut, Mogensen is the...
