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NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft for a year, a setback to efforts to fly a successor to its aging space shuttles, the space agency announced Monday.
“September 2014 is when we are saying we will launch the first crew on the Orion,” program manager Jeff Hanley told reporters in […]
Virgin Galactic’s Sir Richard Branson and Scaled Composites’ Steve Rutan walk past EVE, the newly christened WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft.
The commercial plane—unveiled on July 28, 2008, in California—will carry a six-passenger SpaceShipTwo craft up to 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) before releasing it to continue the journey into space under its own power.
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In a day-after analysis, PM’s resident private-space geek reminds us why it’s still going to be a while before the everyman gets a cheaper ticket onboard a suborbital plane.
NEW YORK — Two more big names are now set to join the pantheon of private citizens turned space tourists (if they’ll even let you call them […]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 30, 2008) — A new life-detecting instrument is preparing for a mission to the Red Planet. The Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector instrument, developed by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, received approximately $2 million in NASA funding to further refine the design and technology for the […]
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Posted By: ashley | Apr 30th
POWAY, CA–(Marketwire - February 25, 2008) - SpaceDev, Inc. announced today that it was awarded a subcontract in support of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), a key part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program. MSL is scheduled for launch to Mars in late 2009 to determine if Mars maintains an environment able to sustain microbial life.
The […]
POWAY, CA–(Marketwire - January 7, 2008) - SpaceDev, Inc. recently completed its second milestone under the Space Act Agreement that was signed with NASA in June 2007. The significant milestone completed is the Flight Test Plan for the Dream Chaser™ space vehicle. The plan provides a detailed approach for the Dream Chaser™ to conduct numerous […]
ITHACA, NY–(Marketwire - October 12, 2007) - Delicate tendrils of interstellar dust in the Carina Nebula point toward regions of new star formation. A barred spiral galaxy, 60 million light-years away, reveals its gently arcing luminous arms. Surrounded by an expanding cocoon of nebulosity, a dying white dwarf star presages the death of our own […]
Hartford, CT (PRWEB) July 20, 2007 — UP Aerospace, Inc. – www.upaerospace.com — a Connecticut-based company and world leader in responsive and low-cost space access, has today offered the Space Generation Advisory Council — www.spacegeneration.org - access to low-cost launches for its youth members.
The Space Generation Advisory Council is the leading international body representing […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL–(Marketwire - June 8, 2007) - Lucy Hawking, daughter of Professor Stephen Hawking — the world-renowned physicist and expert on gravity — will fly aboard Zero Gravity Corporation’s weightless experience on its June 9 Father’s Day flight. This will be her opportunity to share the same weightless experience enjoyed by her father on […]