September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... up by some of the most eminent names in the commercial space industry (ie, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Moon Express and Virgin Galactic), steers and is a growing and powerful lobby in Washington. The question must be asked, how could a country curtail...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... has transferred new technologies back to Earth much faster than might otherwise have been the case. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip2 on an early test flight. Future space tourism craft like this are all vying to carry science...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... and barriers put in front of them to satisfy their dream. People like you. The successful test flight of Virgin Galactic s VSS Unity into the mesosphere on 26 July 2018 took the longdelayed project a step closer to putting tourists...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... aerial shots of Mars, Saturn and Pluto. More interactive artefacts may include life-sized replicas of SpaceX or Virgin Galactic’s prototypes for commercial human space flight. The possibilities are endless and endlessly dazzling. But there...
December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
...: Elon Musk is one of those also aiming to be the first to put people on Mars and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has shown interest in taking responsibility for procreation in space by teaming with SpaceBorn United. However, Russian billionaire...
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...
