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...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... 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...
05 June 2017
The world's largest airplane gets its debut
... 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...
