An animation of a SpaceShipTwo suborbital flight has been posted on YouTube.
Some people are advocating one-way trips to Mars. Which annoying pop star would you like to see go to Mars and not come back?
Australia’s Grollo Aerospace Aims for Hypersonic Passenger Flights, Orbital Vehicles
Mark Grollo races to space
The Herald Sun
Grollo Aerospace hopes to demonstrate a high-speed, high-altitude vehicle within five years. It plans to sell its technology overseas and hopes to eventually construct and operate space vehicles.
“We’d like to be at a stage where we are launching vehicles from Woomera,” Mark Grollo said. “But the ultimate goal [...]
Australian Senate Committee Recommends No Public Funding for Commercial Launch Complex
Although it recommended creating a national space agency, the Senate Standing Committee on Economics has taken a rather hands-off approach on the development of a full-scale commercial launch complex:
“While not opposed in principle to Australia regaining its role as a launch site if a commercial venture wishes to do so (whether for satellites or tourists), [...]
Energia Gets Loan, Kazakh Cosmonaut to Fly Commercial
RIA Novesti reports that Sberbank has loaned Energia 2.9 billion rubles ($106 million) to allow the company to continue production of the Soyuz and Progress vehicles required for the International Space Station (ISS).
Meanwhile, the news agency says that Kazakhstan will be paying a commercial rate to send a cosmonaut to ISS. “‘The only way a [...]
Energia Gets Loan, Kazakh Cosmonaut to Fly Commercial
RIA Novesti reports that Sberbank has loaned Energia 2.9 billion rubles ($106 million) to allow the company to continue production of the Soyuz and Progress vehicles required for the International Space Station (ISS).
Meanwhile, the news agency says that Kazakhstan will be paying a commercial rate to send a cosmonaut to ISS. “‘The only way a [...]
Russian Space Tourist Left Behind as Kazakh Takes His Soyuz Seat
Kazakh astronaut to fly to ISS, Russian hopeful grounded
RIA Novesti
A Kazakh national will fly to the International Space Station in October 2009, a spokesman for the Kazakh National Space Agency said on Thursday. Talgat Musabayev said the Kazakh cosmonaut would fly to the “Russian segment” of the ISS, adding however, that “the financial components of [...]
NASA Raids Science Budgets to Study Launching Science Experiments on Tourism Vehicles
NASA to Study Potential of Piloted Suborbital Flight
Space News
“NASA intends to spend up to $400,000 in 2009 studying whether piloted suborbital spacecraft under development by Virgin Galactic and others have the potential to be useful for scientific research….
“[Ed] Weiler said NASA got a poor response to an unfunded request for information (RFI) it put out [...]
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