by Rob Coppinger | Feb 16, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Go here for the agenda for the London based-Royal Aeronautical Society that will have a good line up of people from Space Adventures, Xcor Aerospace, Virgin Galactic, EADS Astrium, Swedish space corporation, the European Space Agency and the US Federal Aviation...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 10, 2009 | Suborbital, Technology
If you can get yourself to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas for 24-26 February you could attend the Rapid Delivery of Military Capabilities via Space technology forum. And if you have near-term commercial systems that can deliver military capabilities via...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 2, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
At 1000h local time in California (1800h GMT) Xcor Aerospace has its press conference about its first customer, now known to be Danish citizen Per Wimmer, its first travel agent and technical advances for its proposed suborbital Lynx vehicle I have been provided with...
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 24, 2008 | Constellation, exploration, NASA, Suborbital
For those of you able to make it all the way through the 3h webcast video of the September lunar exploration industry briefing day there is a bit at the end that makes for interesting what-if pondering The Altair lunar lander project office deputy manager Clinton...
