..., 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...
... mission by crash landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenk. Back on Earth, SpaceX went from strength to strength, as did Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. And if that wasn’t enough, plans for the first ever space nation known...
... is also the company that built SpaceShipOne and White Knight Two – an aircraft that has been acquired by Virgin Galactic to add to their fleet of suborbital spaceplanes. The aircraft has now been moved out of its hangar for...
... hopes to complete a trial with humans on board by 2019. With big companies such as Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic to compete against, KuangChi Science Limited are hoping to elbow their way into the space tourism industry...
... the prize, the craft was immediately retired from active service. Stratolaunch follows a similar principle to Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first passenger carrying spaceship to be built by a private company, in that it takes off and...
... into space than the International Space Station (ISS). This is significantly further than the spaceflights offered by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, which settle for the Kármán line; an imaginary border 100 kilometres (62 miles) above Earth...