Selling the $200,000 ticket
Alamogordo Daily News
Tumbling, screaming, racing, surfing down a dune of white sand, 60 travel agents took a load off their feet Tuesday as they took turns riding sled discs to the bottom of the slope.
NMSA Announcement The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) is seeking information to help in the planning and development for visitor experience and hospitality management of Spaceport America. This is not a Request for Proposals. A contract will not be awarded based on submissions, however all input is welcome and encouraged. General Services – day-to-day maintenance and operation (M&O) of spaceport facilities; Technical Services – overall airfield, mission and flight support […]
Clark Lindsey posted this commercial that features flight testing by Armadillo Aerospace with Neil Milburn using his Blackberry phone.
Cornell University students conducts experiments in microgravity. (Credit: NASA)
NASA PROGRAM UPDATE
NASA recently sponsored a series of flights from Ellington Field in Houston to test technologies in reduced-gravity conditions. The flights marked the third year of operations for NASA’s Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology program, called FAST.
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SPACEFLIGHT SERVICES PRESS RELEASE
Sept. 30, 2010
Spaceflight Services (Spaceflight) announced today pricing for small payloads to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) and Low Lunar Orbit (LLO).
Spaceflight, as part of the Rocket City Space Pioneer Google Lunar X-Prize Team, is responsible for mission integration and providing space transportation services to Low Lunar Orbit. Spaceflight is providing flight opportunities for ESPA class spacecraft (spacecraft weighing less than 180 kg) interested in launch services to GTO and Low Lunar Orbit.
Stennis officials: Commercial partners keep workforce active
WLOX-13 News
The new rocket test stand under construction at Stennis is supposed to test NASA’s new J2X engine. Changes in NASA’s mission could change that plan, and Stennis officials say that’s okay.
“If that’s not the engine selected, we can test other engines,” Engineer Lionel Dutreix said. “We can also partner with commercial industry.”
A Boeing CST-100 crew module docks at a Bigelow Aerospace space station. (Credit: Boeing)
A bit more on Robert Bigelow’s visit on Wednesday to the United Launch Alliance production facility in Decatur, Ala. Media reports indicate that Bigelow’s company will need a large number of rockets to sustain its planned space stations. He also said he has six nations lined up to lease the facilities.
SPACE ECONOMY CAREER FAIR SCHEDULED FOR HOUSTON
Fair brings together government leaders and space industry veterans to explore new employment opportunities and expansion plans in Houston area
HOUSTON – October 6, 2010– The Next Step in Space Coalition and the Commercial Spaceflight Federation are hosting a Space Economy Career Fair to match potential employers with the best and brightest in the space industry. The global space economy is now estimated at more than $250 billion and is expected to grow at a healthy rate in the next decade with further commercialization of the industry. The fair is designed to provide employers the opportunity to meet and interview with seasoned veterans of the space industry displaced by recent policy changes and the current economic climate. Employers and job seekers can register for the fair at www.spaceeconomyhouston.org.
14th Space Studies Institute Conference on Space Manufacturing
and Space Settlement Set for Oct. 29-31 in Silicon Valley
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (Oct 7, 2010) — Space scientists and entrepreneurs will meet in Silicon Valley from Oct. 29-31 to help plan humanity’s future on the high frontier at the Space Studies Institute’s Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement conference.
During the gathering at the NASA Ames Conference Center and the Sheraton Sunnyvale Hotel, speakers will present a wide range of research topics, including affordable space transportation, extraterrestrial prospecting, lunar and asteroidal manufacturing processes, robotics and tele-operations, closed environment life support systems, space solar power and energy, and off-planet property rights. On Saturday, famed biologist and entrepreneur Craig Venter will give a special talk on synthetic genomics.
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Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow visited the United Launch Alliance assembly plant in Decatur, Ala., where he promoted the use of the Atlas V rocket for human missions and decried the $56 million per seat that NASA is paying to Russia to fly American astronauts aboard Soyuz spacecraft. WAFF-48 News quotes the founder of Bigelow Aerospace as saying: “We’ve already spent about 800-million dollars giving that money to the Russians, and […]
Space Studies Institute Executive Vice President Lee Valentine will be appearing on The Space Show With David Livingston today (Wednesday, Oct. 6) from 7-8 p.m. PDT to discuss the upcoming Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement conference. The gathering will be held from Oct. 29-31 at the NASA Ames Conference Center and Sheraton Sunnyvale Hotel.. To listen listen to The Space Show, click here. For more details on […]
Scaled Composites has posted logs from three test flights they have undertaken over the last month. Two flights involved solo tests of the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft; the third involved hauling aloft SpaceShipTwo. The logs indicate that the company is moving toward the first drop test of the suborbital tourism vehicle.
Test summaries are after the break.