NASA has restored video from the Apollo 11 moon walk.
PURE ENTERTAINMENT PRESS RELEASE
Pure Entertainment Group Inc, a bespoke event management and luxury concierge company, recently announced a partnership with the only company that provides human space mission to the world marketplace: Space Adventures Ltd.
This partnership allows Pure Entertainment Group to be one of the first and only companies in Canada to offer bespoke space travel experiences to its very demanding clientele, such as space-related adventure tours, sub-orbital and orbital spaceflights, zero-gravity flights and cosmonaut training programs.
Former Washington Redskins player Ken Harvey is now working as a trainer for space tourists.
GLXP PRESS RELEASE
A study performed by the Futron Corporation, an aerospace consultancy based in Bethesda, MD, predicts that companies such as those competing for the Google Lunar X PRIZE will be able to address a market in excess of $1 billion over the course of the next decade.
An artist's conception of a Virgin Galactic flight above Spaceport America in New Mexico
SPACEPORT AMERICA PRESS RELEASE
Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport, has installed three launch pads for NASA’s 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Centennial Challenge, which is administered by the X PRIZE Foundation to spur innovation and technology development.
Called ‘Tranquility Base’ to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, the trio of lunar lander launch pads was constructed the week of June 22 in preparation for this year’s competition, which begins as early as July 20 and continues through October 31, 2009.
ODYSSEY MOON PRESS RELEASE
Google Lunar X PRIZE contender Odyssey Moon Limited announced today that top industry leaders Near Earth LLC, WPP Group, Aon and Milbank have joined its corporate team. Odyssey Moon intends to become the first private company to supply payload delivery services to the Moon in support of science, exploration and commerce. This is the first time such major organizations have come together to support a commercial Moon venture.
NASA PRESS RELEASE
The following is a series of questions and answers prepared by Michael Collins, command module pilot for Apollo 11. Collins issued the following statement in lieu of media interviews:
These are questions I am most frequently asked, plus a few others I have added. For more information, please consult my book, the 40th anniversary edition of CARRYING THE FIRE, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. All of the following sections in quotation marks are from that reference.
Q. Circling the lonely moon by yourself, the loneliest person in the universe, weren’t you lonely?
A. No.
You can follow a recreation of the Apollo 11 flight in real time at We Choose the Moon: www.wechoosethemoon.org
PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderator: Gary Martin, NASA Ames Director of the New Ventures and Communications Directorate
Panelists:
Peter Diamandis – ISU, SU, Zero-G
Gary Hudson – CEO, AirLaunch LLC; Co-founder, t/Space
Eric Anderson – CEO, Space Adventures
(Thanks to Clark Lindsey at Hobby Space for the link)
After $18 Million, RocketPlane Only Launched Empty Promise for Oklahoma
OK Gazette
A drive by the Will Rogers World Airport is all one needs to know something has gone awry. Along Amelia Earhart Drive sits the office of Rocketplane, home to what might have been America’s first commercial space flight passenger company. Based out of the Oklahoma City office for nearly five years, engineers and executives plotted and tested their plans for building a rocket ship.
But today, the doors are locked, the windows are dark and a “For Lease†sign stands outside the office.
The Senate has confirmed Charles Bolden and Lori Garver as NASA administrator and deputy administrator, respectively.
NASA MISSION UPDATE Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven astronauts are in orbit after an on-time launch at 6:03 p.m. EDT from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Following a smooth countdown with no technical issues and weather that steadily improved throughout the afternoon, the shuttle lifted off from Launch Pad 39A and began its orbital chase of the International Space Station. “It was a testimony for this […]