by Rob Coppinger | Apr 16, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Space Shuttle
NASA needs to increase its annual average funding by $5 billion to almost $24 billion for the next decade to achieve its 2020 Moon and International Space Station (ISS) goals and be able to fly the Space Shuttles to 2015The $5 billion prediction is from the NASA...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 3, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, Space tourism
Space Adventures chief executive Eric Anderson told the media today that if the expected flight of a Kazakh cosmonaut does not go ahead on 30 September this year onboard Soyuz TMA 16 then one of his company’s customers might go to the International Space...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, space station, Space tourism
*** NEWS TELE-CONFERENCE *** SPACE ADVENTURES’ CEO ERIC ANDERSON FRIDAY, APRIL 3 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT) SPACE ADVENTURES’ CEO ERIC ANDERSON TO DISCUSS FUTURE OF SPACE TOURISM, AVAILABLE SEATS FOR UPCOMING ORBITAL FLIGHTS WHAT:...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 31, 2009 | Apollo, Ares, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, NASA, Space tourism
You can find Flightglobal.com’s news and blog page (or landing page as its known in the jargon) for the 25th National Space Symposium right here. You can create you’re own landing pages for any aerospace topic you want by going to this page and typing into...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 19, 2009 | ESA, International Space Station
The European Space Agency has announced that the second of its five planned Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) resuppy spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS) will be named Johannes Kepler This was a bit of a surprise as I had been told that after ATV-1,...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 16, 2009 | ESA, International Space Station, Russia, Technology
Details have emerged of how the European Space Agency and the Russian Federal space Agency’s hopes for collaboration on the Crew Space Transportation System (CSTS) ended and what next for the western European €21 million ($26.8 million) Advanced Reentry Vehicle...
