by Rob Coppinger | Mar 11, 2010 | Seradata News
The annual search for the most admired individuals in aviation and aerospace is underway again with the Flightglobal achievement awards 2010Make your nominations for the year’s aviation and aerospace leader, aviator, innovator and the individual you...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 2, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion
NASA’s first foray into private spaceflight, the commercial orbital transportation services programme, also known as COTS, has seen a 60% hike in the agency’s investment with the fiscal year 2011 budget Originally planned to cost $500 million which the...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, NASA, Personal spaceflight
Congressional support for NASA’s return to the Moon Constellation programme can now be seen to have made a material impact on efforts to get commercial ventures underway, in this story on flightglobal.com Back in April Hyperbola reported how the $150 million for...
by Rob Coppinger | Sep 30, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS, NASA, Technology
If starting and then stopping, within a week, a procurement process for human rating commercial crew transport vehicles seems strange then the sum of money that came attached might seem even strangerNASA has told Hyperbola: “We received a total of $1...
by David Todd | Apr 30, 2009 | Seradata News
credit NASA/Lockheed Martin / caption: Will this be seen in 2020?Acting NASA administrator Christopher Scolese made some interesting remarks on 29 April at the Congressional appropriations hearing that Hyperbola thinks could see another human spaceflight gap for...