by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Editorial Comment, Space
In the billionaire race to be the first on a commercial flight into the edge of space, Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson plans to pip Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos with a flight planned for July 11. (Bezos first planned space flight is set for July 20). “Astronaut 001”...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Editorial Comment, Space
Fulfilling a lifelong mission to become an astronaut, Wally Funk will fly to space on New Shepard’s first human flight on July 20 as an honoured guest. She will join Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, and the auction winner on the flight. Wally’s journey to space...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Editorial Comment, Space
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has updated Virgin Galactic Holdings’ existing commercial space transportation operator license to allow the “spaceline” or space airliner to fly customers to space. Virgin Galactic also announced that it has...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Space, Uncategorised
SpaceX and NASA have successfully launched Falcon 9 of Dragon’s second six-month operational crew mission (Crew-2) to the International Space Station (ISS) from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Following stage separation,...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Space
Space Perspective plans to fly passengers and research payloads to the edge of space with its Spaceship Neptune, a high-performance balloon and pressurised capsule.The human space flight company plans to launch from the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Space, Technology
Giant size ambitions need equally large size planes to make them happen and on May 18 the supersized AN-124-100 ‘Ruslan’ Antanov cargo airplane brought a crucial component to Cape Canaveral for NASA’s next Mars missions – an Atlas 5 rocket booster that will play a...
