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A4H PR – Tampa, Florida – Astronauts4Hire is pleased to announce it has entered into a research and training partnership with the Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory (AGSOL). The two organizations recently signed a memorandum of understanding agreement focused on addressing the goals, challenges, and issues of astronaut training for private spaceflight.

XCOR CEO Jeff Greason is speaking as part of a panel discussion at the AIAA 47th Joint Propulsion Conference. He’s explaining what is truly revolutionary about XCOR’s rocket development. To summarize: We are not going to make space affordable by improving the ISP of the rocket. XCOR is developing propulsion systems that are more like aircraft engines than rocket engines. They don’t wear out like normal rocket engines do. The […]

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Congratulations to Jon Goff and his Altius Space Machines team for winning the $25,000 grand prize in the Space Frontier Foundation’s annual NewSpace Business Plan Competition. The company won the award to help it develop the “Sticky Boom” rendezvous and docking technology that does not require a spacecraft to have a docking port. The company plans to use this technology to deliver small payloads to the International Space Station, capture […]

Space Adventures is teaming with the Space Needle to send a lucky winner into space to celebrate the 50th anniversary next year of the famous structure that graces the Seattle skyline. It’s an interesting competition: there will be 1,000 entrants picked randomly in December who will compete in a separate “skill-based competition” to win a suborbital spaceflight worth $110,000 on an unspecified vehicle. There are no details on precisely what the competition will entail other than they will include “various tests and challenges” to be conducted throughout December.

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Today SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and President Gwynne Shotwell are speaking at the AIAA propulsion conference. At 4:00 PM EDT/1:00 PM PDT, Elon Musk will discuss “Getting to Mars” At 5:00 PM EDT/2:00 PM PDT Gwynne Shotwell will participate in the Commercial Space Panel Both should be webcast live at: https://www.livestream.com/aiaa If you miss them live, AIAA says videos may be available for a limited time in the on-demand section at […]

This week on The Space Show with David Livingston…. Monday, August 1, 2011, 2-3:30 PM PDT: We welcome back Dr. Haym Benaroya to the program for lunar engineering updates and much more. Dr. Benaroya is at Rutgers University. Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 7-8:30 PM PDT: We welcome back Robert Pearlman of CollectSpace (www.collectspace.com). CollectSpace is the leading source for both product and information regarding space collectable and memorabilia. Visit www.collectspace.com […]

Moon Express Co-founder Barney Pell describes his company’s plans to launch commercial lunar services.

International Space Station

NASA PR — WASHINGTON — The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) for the International Space Station partner agencies met Tuesday, July 26, to discuss how to use the space station as a test bed for technologies that will enable missions beyond low Earth orbit.

The board will begin identifying several specific technology collaboration initiatives based on possible future missions suggested by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group. These technology developments and demonstrations on the station could support voyages to an asteroid or Mars or the development of lunar habitats.

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