by David Todd | May 25, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
Go here for the US Federal Aviation Administration’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee’s 20/21 May meeting presentations are now onlineIn summary the key points seem to Hyperbola to be that,the personal spaceflight industry is drawing up...
by David Todd | May 21, 2009 | Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Yesterday on 20 May Scaled Composite’s WhiteKnight Two prototype Virgin Mothership Eve flew for the fifth time Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn has told Hyperbola that the test lasted 3h and that: “Flight 5 has been a great success as it tested the...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 14, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
At the Space Foundation’s 25th National Space Symposium Hyperbola spoke to the US Federal Aviation Administration’s associate administrator for the office of commercial space transportation George Nield The surprising part of our quick chat (the background...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 13, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
Listen here to parts, one, two and three of Rocketplane Global vice president for business development Charles Lauer’s 30min presentation on the status of the XP vehicle, given at the Space Access Society conference in Phoenix, Arizona on 4 April 2009. And...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 5, 2009 | Ares, commercial launch services, NASA, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
In this video Armadillo Aerospace founder John Carmack speaks to Hyperbola about helping NASA test its Ares I crew launch vehicle upper stage J-2X engine’s igniter, a rocket data “app” for an iphone, what happened to the Rocket Racing, New Mexico...
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...
