by David Todd | May 8, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion, Technology
On 8 May 2009 former Lockheed Martin chairman Norman Augustine spoke to the media on a NASA teleconference about the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans he is going to lead with a panel of about ten that Augustine said is likely to include former...
by David Todd | Apr 29, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Technology
Blogosphere excitement at the prospect of $150 million, or $80 million depending upon the report you read, going directly to “commercial” development of crew transport to low Earth orbit is all misguided NASA has told HyperbolaThese are the facts:NASA is...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2009 | Ares, commercial launch services, Constellation, exploration, Orion, Technology
But it is not because Florida Today’s The Flame Trench blog has not done its journalism properly, no, its because NASA’s public affairs office got it wrong – well everybody makes mistakes I guessNASA has told Hyperbola that The Flame...
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 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, exploration, JAXA, Personal spaceflight, Technology
A former employee of the Japan Exploration Aerospace Agency Misuzu Onuki, now an aerospace business consultant, spoke to the Space Access Society conference about space activities in Japan and Japanese space tourism Click here to listen to part one Click here to...
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...
