by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jul 1, 2021 | 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 | Jun 28, 2021 | 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 | Apr 23, 2021 | 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 | Jul 1, 2020 | 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 | Jun 12, 2020 | 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...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Oct 9, 2019 | Editorial Comment, Space
Boeing is investing $20 million in Virgin Galactic, a vertically integrated human spaceflight company. The companies will work together to broaden commercial space access and transform global travel technologies. Brian Schettler, senior managing director of Boeing...
