January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... of course the investors in the US that have started developing private space capabilities. Think about the flights of Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin and of course, SpaceX, which has developed the Dragon Spacecraft. So we see, in the United...
February 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...’s hiatus - since the last private visit to the International Space Station - is now beginning to pick up momentum again. Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity passenger space plane is released from the mothership on 11 July 2021, its rocket igniting to send...
01 December 2014
SpaceShipTwo lost
.... While pilot Peter Siebold escaped by parachute with only moderate injuries, sub-orbit space tourism company Virgin Galactic (VG) now faces a year-long wait, with the detailed accident investigation work being conducted by the US National...
11 October 2015
Rocking the vision of a new space revolution with Rick Tumlinson at TEDxESA
... stones to human exploration and settlement of the solar system. He helped create the NewSpace movement that includes Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, and investors like Paul Allen and Larry Page of Google. Rick has been called one...
19 November 2015
2015 World Technology Summit held In New York City
... Research Deep Space Industries ESA (Rosetta comet mission) Generation Orbit Moog NASA (New Horizons mission) Virgin Galactic Both Winners and Finalists will be inducted into the membership of the WTN, which now comprises over...
20 October 2016
Asgardia: The New Space Nation
..., the Mars Society is quiet and has no pronouncements of mission accomplishment or otherwise till date. The case with Virgin galactic can be expected to be no different. What makes Asgardia Distinct? However, what makes the Asgardia proposal distinct...
