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28 July 2008
Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo Sees Sunlight for the First Time (Gallery)
Early this morning in the Californian Mojave Desert, Richard Branson and Burt Rutan unveiled the completed Virgin Galactic Mothership "Eve," the first time this highly secretive project has seen the light of day. This is a significant moment for both Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites, the company that built Eve, as it shows space tourism [...]
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17 July 2008
A Match Made in Space
Rocketplane Global has announced they will be offering the opportunity for people to get married in space. On their upcoming planned suborbital flights, the space tourism company is making available specialty charter flights that include space wedding ceremonies. Billed as "the ultimate high-end celebrity wedding," the package was first un"veiled" in Japan [...]
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09 May 2008
Space Hotel Prototype Makes 10,000th Orbit
After 660 days in space and 10,000 orbits around Earth, the pioneering inflatable prototype is still going strong. Launched atop a converted intercontinental ballistic missile on July 12th, 2006, the Bigelow Aerospace vision for a space hotel is gradually being realized. The first test was to see whether the design could self-inflate and carry out [...]
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20 April 2008
Branson to be the First to Marry Couples in Space
He's married a couple on board a Virgin Atlantic jet, he's also officiated the marriage of Google's co-founder Larry Page on his private island in the Caribbean, now Richard Branson wants to marry couples as they reach the apex of their Virgin Galactic flights into space. The British billionaire already has two wedding-related bookings, one [...]
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14 April 2008
Finally, A Sport for Geeks: Rocket Racing League Announces First Live Exhibition
Combining the exhilaration of racing, with the power of rocket engines and the appeal of video gaming, Rocket Racing League (RRL) CEO Granger Whitelaw said the new sports entertainment league is the sport for geeks. “We haven’t really had a sport, but now we do,” said Whitelaw, a self-professed geek at a press conference [...]
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10 April 2008
How Long Does it Take to get to the Moon?
In a recent interview, Richard Branson outlined his vision for Virgin Galactic's future. Once tourists are taken into Earth orbit, it seems possible that space hotels could be developed for longer stop-overs in space. He then went on to mention that short "sight-seeing" tours to the Moon could be started from these ultimate hotels. If [...]
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28 March 2008
Under Construction: SpaceShipTwo, on Course for 2009 Testflight (Pictures)
It is really taking shape. The future of Virgin Galactic's fleet of space tourism rockets is currently forming in a non-descript factory in the Mojave Desert, California. As if to prove that the Scaled Composite-design is not a pipe dream, pictures of the first commercial spaceflight vehicle have been released. It looks fairly crude and [...]
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18 March 2008
Big Plans for Mass Production of Advanced Spacecraft for Tourists (Video Simulation & Pictures)
Europe's leading spacecraft manufacturer EADS Astrium, the builders of the Ariane rocket (that launches many of Europe's space missions), has announced plans to mass produce the next generation of space planes. Developing the design of a single-stage "rocket plane", the company believes there will be a demand for 10 spacecraft per year when the space tourism idea [...]
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05 February 2008
British Engineers Design Hypersonic Passenger Jet
A British engineering company has stepped into the commercial spaceflight arena with an ambitious and inspiring design of a possible airliner of the future. The A2, the design behind the Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies (LAPCAT) project, will carry 300 passengers, will have a range of 20,000 km and will be capable of travelling [...]
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23 January 2008
Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo
Your trip to space is just around the corner now. In the next step in its goal of sending regular folk to space, Virgin Galactic today unveiled the vehicle that's going to take them there: SpaceShipTwo. The announcement was made today at a press conference at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. [...]
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22 January 2008
Branson Outlines His Vision For Virgin Galactic, Video Interview
Things are moving quickly for Virgin Galactic. The world's first commercial space tourism company has gone from strength to strength since developing Scaled Composite's X-Prize-winning space ship design into Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. Now, as Virgin Galactic is well on its way to building the world's first space port in the New Mexico desert, Richard Branson [...]
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19 January 2008
Scaled Composites at Fault for Fatal Explosion
Safety inspectors in California have cited Scaled Composites for being at fault for the explosion that killed three employees at their Mojave Air and Space Port. The explosion occurred in July 2007 and stunned the X-Prize winning company. They now face a maximum fine of $25,310.
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09 January 2008
Drinks From Space
The craze for bottled water and energy drinks has reached new heights. An Albuquerque, New Mexico company has created specialized drinks made from ingredients that have been flown to space. Microgravity Enterprises, Inc. (MEI) says the demand for their drinks has grown and they are expanding their distribution base.
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07 January 2008
Branson Wants to Fly Space Tourists into the Northern Lights
For his next big plan for the private space industry, Richard Branson is thinking up new ways to excite affluent space tourists: flying them into the biggest lightshow on Earth, the Aurora Borealis. Although the New Mexico Virgin Galactic Spaceport isn't scheduled for completion until 2010, the British entrepreneur is already planning his next project [...]
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04 January 2008
Former Astronaut Herrington Resigns from Rocketplane
Former NASA astronaut John Herrington has resigned from the commercial space company Rocketplane Global, Inc. Herrington left NASA in 2005 to join Rocketplane as vice president and director of flight operations. He was slated to pilot the company’s passenger-carrying suborbital XP spaceplane. His resignation was effective on December 21, 2007.
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