by David Todd | Feb 21, 2013 | exploration, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News
Flightglobal Hyperbola column’s analysis of the new privately-led space race to land a man or woman on Mars (between Dennis Tito’s outfit, SpaceX and Mars One) has led us to consider how we would do it. Actually, we would go for the “Tuco”...
by David Todd | Feb 11, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, On a Lighter Note, Personal spaceflight, Technology
While Reaction Engines’ rocket designer Alan Bond still hopes to see his airbreathing-rocket powered Skylon space plane design fly one day and may even ride in it inside its passenger cabin himself when it does so, he told the audience at the European AstroFest...
by David Todd | Feb 4, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Suborbital
At the International Institute of Space Commerce’ sponsored event “Space Tourism: Risks and Solutions” workshop which was held at Lloyds of London under an arrangement with the Broker Aon, the insurance of suborbital space tourism was discussed. ...
by David Todd | Jan 31, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight
The news that Lockheed Martin has finally got back into commercial manned spaceflight transportation by joining the Sierra Nevada led team building the second Dreamchaser spaceplane will probably be a relief to its board. For while Lockheed Martin beat its main rival...
by David Todd | Jan 10, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News
The most recent update of NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) programme (and its CCiCap follow-on) had one interesting point: all three of the leading commercial firms involved, Boeing, Sierra Nevada and SpaceX, plan to have their own test-pilot...
by David Todd | Jan 8, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, exploration, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism
Northrop Grumman, the manufacturer in its Grumman-guise of the world’s only proven manned lunar lander, the Apollo programme’s lunar excursion module (LEM), has been awarded a contract to provide design studies for another lunar lander – this time...
