October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... Monica. Contrary to stories told by some others, his ride started at a meeting of the Santa Monica chapter of the Space Tourism Society. I was there giving an update on a crazy project I was helping lead to save the Russian Mir...
14 December 2018
VSS Unity reaches edge of space in landmark test flight
... her maiden spaceflight as it successfully reached the edge of space yesterday to return without a hitch back in the Mojave...have made bold claims about its expected timescales for making space tourism a reality. In 2008 it said sub-orbital spaceflight...
28 July 2016
There's been a murder in space - now what?
...Space tourism could soon be a popular way for humanity to take a holiday but legal experts are concerned that criminality in outer space...committed by astronauts during long visits to the International Space Station (ISS). Questions also need to be ...
18 September 2018
First Moon tourist for SpaceX unveiled as Japanese billionaire
... the BFR might look like and its design resembles a much larger version of the now redundant space shuttles, with fins rather than rocket boosters attached to the rear. With a cost for the BFR...
12 December 2019
Blue Origin's New Shepard makes 12th test flight
... 10 minute 16 second flight. Depending on which scale you use, the “boundary” between the discernible atmosphere and space is either 80.5 kilometres (50 miles) if you are NASA, the US Air Force or the US Federal Aviation Administration, while the...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
...weightlessness during an ESA parabolic flight campaign opening the way for surgical care during long-term space missions, such as interplanetary human spaceflight. Parabolic manoeuvres A solid object launched in a vacuum with an initial velocity will...
