Is Space Tourism Soon to Become a Reality?
With the successful test flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) at the end of April, 2013, we are one step closer to commercial space tourism. This is not orbital tourism, of course, but the...
View ArticleThe Long Path to Space Tourism
Artist’s conception of Shimizu Space Hotel in orbit. Despite its recent visibility in the United States with the efforts of Virgin Galactic to build a suborbital vehicle, space tourism is hardly a...
View ArticleAnnouncing Space Policy and History Forum #14: Commercial Spaceflight After...
Announcement Commercial Spaceflight After the Antares and SpaceShipTwo Failures Space Policy and History Forum #1406 Monday, December 8, 2014 by Jeff Foust, Space News The commercial space industry...
View ArticleThat Was The Year That Was in Space, 2014
This diagram shows the locations of the Earth’s fleet of geosynchronous satellites., although it is at present quite out of date. It does give a good impression of the number of commercial satellites...
View ArticleBoarding the Spaceplane?
I posted this originally to the blog, “Above and Beyond,” on June 15, 2015. I thought I would reprint here. Artist’s concept of the X-30 aerospace plane flying through Earth’s atmosphere on its way to...
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