by Rob Coppinger | Dec 2, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
Yes, as a P. W. Mothman has commented (on this earlier post) the Xcor customer is Danish born, UK resident Per Wimmer. Xcor cheekily, and perhaps at some risk, published the above photo but without caption so unless you knew Per you would not have known that he was...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 27, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
Hyperbola has learnt the identity of the first customer for Xcor Aerospace’s Lynx suborbital vehicle and this blog can say now thatthe individual is a northern European (no it’s not Richard Branson), is male, is from a country near to Germany, has worked...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 17, 2008 | Space tourism, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Hyperbola has learnt that Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo has made short runs under its own jet engine power and been shackled to a Mojave air and space port concrete platform test stand so its four Pratt & Whitney 308A engines can be fired up, potentially...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 6, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital
At the 29 October 2008 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) COMmercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) meeting a John Sloan gave a presentation on the FAA’s office of commercial space transportation’s (AST) international strategy that...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 5, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
Hear Scaled Composites’ founder and chief technology officer Burt Rutan talk about SpaceShipTwo’s (SS2) flight frequency and alternate applications at the 2008 Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin In this...
by Rob Coppinger | Sep 27, 2008 | Space tourism
Scaled Composites founder, chief technology officer and designer-in-chief of the SpaceShipTwo/WhiteKnightTwo subortbial launch system, Burt Rutan, talked to The Washington Post about his dreams of a cislunar resort
