by Mark Williamson | May 18, 2021 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Seradata News, Space tourism, SpaceX
It looks as if the floodgates might be about to open in the space tourism market following years of frustratingly slow progress. On 13 May, space tourism company Space Adventures announced that two civilians will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on the...
by David Todd | Jun 26, 2020 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, Space tourism
Roscosmos, the Russian space agency/industrial complex, has announced that it plans to allow two tourists to ride aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2023. The two would-be astronauts will be accompanied by a professional cosmonaut...
by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | Apollo, Blue Origin, Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Seradata News, Space Insurance, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic
As the 50th celebration of the Apollo 11 astronaut moon landing gets underway, some less well-known aspects of the mission have been revealed. One was that during the late 1950s the UK briefly considered starting a project to mount its own Apollo-11-style human lunar...
by David Todd | Dec 14, 2018 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
The US Air Force has traditionally awarded its pilots “astronaut wings” if they have exceeded 50 miles (80km) in altitude. Others who support this limit of where “space begins” include astrophysicist and spaceflight expert Dr Jonathan McDowell. He has eloquently...
by David Todd | Feb 27, 2017 | Commercial human spaceflight, exploration, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, SpaceX
SpaceX has agreed to carry two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year, probably with a SpaceX pilot astronaut accompanying them. The unnamed pair have already paid a significant deposit do this moon mission which will use a figure of eight free...
