The New Mexico Spaceport is now open and ready to support rocket and space flights. The state is currently reviewing proposals for the Southwest Regional Spaceport facilities such as launch pads, hangars, etc.
“Our 56-foot-tall launcher has now been craned onto the launch pad. It’s exciting to see the mobile launch facilities now in position. These […]
NASA has been trying to get more cozy with the private sector recently by offering use of their looooooong runway at the Kennedy Space Center for private use…. with a fee of course. So far the GlobalFlyer has taken them up on the offer and now Zero-G has announced they too will use the Shuttle […]
Virgin Galactic says they are on track to launch passengers into space sometime near the end of 2008. About 50,000 people have put down their names on a “want to fly” list. NASA has offered the Kennedy Space Center as a launch area however Sir Richard Branson has said the flights will most likely originate […]
Unless you are new to this site you will know I’m a huge fan of Burt Rutan and his aircraft designs. Tonight on the Discovery Channel (at least in my area) there will be a documentary called “Black Sky, Winning the X-Prize”. (check schedule)
The show will focus on Burt Rutan and SpaceSchipOne in their attempt […]
Rocketplane, a copany looking to provide commercial flights into space announced this week NASA has agreed to loan them a nice big engine. NASA has been trying to be more friendly with the private sector recently with programs such as this and the GlobalFlyer using the Cape Canaveral runway.
The engine is NASA’s RS-88 and is […]
Flight at Mac 20? The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 1 (HTV-1) is a joint program between the US Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) designed to attain close to Mach to as early as September of 2007.
The aircraft (artist rendering above via Russ Partch) will exit the earth’s atmosphere before reentering […]
The French aerospace company Dassault Aviation uses a radical 3-D imaging system to dramatically cut the time it takes to design aircraft, as well as the factories and machine tools used to make airplanes. Designers use game-like joysticks and special glasses to manipulate and view 3-D objects on a 10-foot-tall screen.
“Virtual” ground crews simulate […]
How much would you pay to fly into space? That is the question being asked of AOPA members this week. They are currently running a poll that asks that question. I’ve cast my response and if you are an AOPA member you can too. I wish the current results were displayed after you submitted and […]
NASA has announced plans to send four astronauts to the moon by 2018 at a cost of $100 billion. The plans will include a new 5.5 meter “blunt body crew capsule” launched from several space shuttle components. The official announcement from NASA is expected Monday.
The official plan is called the “Exploration Systems Architecture Study” and […]
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