by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz, space station, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
Hyperbola is launching to the Oort cloud for a week’s R&R from today and will be returning via Daejeon, Korea from the 12 October. In Daejeon Hyperbola will be blogging from the International Astronautical Congress, where the world’s space...
by Rob Coppinger | Sep 11, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Soyuz, Space tourism
On Friday 4 September I spoke to former NASA astronaut and Excalibur Almaz (EA) executive vice president for technical operations Leroy Chiao about the commercial orbital tourism venture that is using Soviet developed space vehicles. In the extended portion of...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 8, 2009 | History, Russia, Soyuz, space station
First Briton in space Helen Sharman spoke to Hyperbola after being awarded the first silver astronaut pin by the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) on 3 July 2009. Sharman flew to the Mir space station in May 1991. Called Project Juno the mission had...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 13, 2009 | ESA, exploration, History, Russia, Soyuz, Technology
Go here to find out more about how you can follow all the tweet action from the Flightglobal team working this week at the Le Bourget Paris Salon de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (that’s aeronautics and space to the anglais only readers out there) as...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 13, 2009 | ESA, exploration, History, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
It is a bright and sunny Saturday (13 June) morning here in le Bourget, France where preparations continue for the 100th Paris air show that will see a whole of lot of aeronautics stuff and plenty of European spaceflight industry and agency activity to fill the...
by David Todd | May 26, 2009 | Constellation, COTS, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Russia, Soyuz
Poor Charles Bolden. If he does actually become NASA administrator he’ll have a flat budget, the job of retiring the world’s only reusable spaceplane (and a few thousand workers), preside over a divisive review of US human spaceflight...
