by Rob Coppinger | Feb 26, 2010 | NASA, Technology
In response to Buzz Aldrin’s article in the Wall Street Journal Burt Rutan has circulated the following:This sounds fine thru the lens of my friend Buzz Aldrin. However, the reality is that the new plan has no schedules, no $ and no programs to build...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 26, 2010 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, exploration, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Technology
Burt Rutan has released the following statement:To my friends in the Press…Since the WSJ chose to cherry-pick and miss-quote my comments to CongWolf and since the blogs have taken that to further mischaracterized mycomments, I am forwarding the Wolf memo in its...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 16, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA, Technology
>Click here to go to the webpage to listen to the 3min 43s interview with Ad Astra Rocket company president and chief executive Franklin Chang Diaz, former NASA astronaut and inventor of the VAriable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR). Chang Diaz talks...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 12, 2010 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Technology
Meet Alpha the new suborbital vehicle under study for the European Union, or perhaps I should add the forerunner to Alpha that was called Phoenix, built by EADS Astrium (then known as Space) and tested in 2004 for the German Aerospace Centre DLR Phoenix was a subscale...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 10, 2010 | commercial launch services, ESA, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
Not yet available at either the British National Space Centre or Space Innovation and Growth Team (IGT) websites but found here at its own website, here are some choice qoutes from the latest review of the UK’s spaceflight industry, the Space IGT’s...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 21, 2010 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Technology
Following Space Exploration Technologies’ Elon Musk’s salvo the Commercial Spaceflight Federation has also responded to the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel comments on commercial launch providers:Since the ASAP correctly points out that NASA has not...
