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...
10 June 2019
NASA opens ISS to space tourists
... and SpaceX under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). To accommodate this, NASA has expanded the International Space Station Utilization NASA Research Announcement (NRA) to assist U.S. Entities to pursue these missions. The announcement, made...
22 June 2021
Space Tourism Business: The Foundations
..., tackles this head-on by recognising the need to “question the very notion of supporting the surely elitist pursuit of space tourism at all”. Although the author does not need to justify the timing of his book, he quite reasonably points...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
..., poses unique issues in respect of identifying and codifying criminality. Unlike the mass access to LEO eagerly anticipated by space tourism companies, the crew of any such flight will be relatively small for the foreseeable future. Each individual...
11 October 2018
Commercial Uses of Space and Space Tourism: legal and policy aspects
... largely speculation, but today the commercial use of space, in particular for tourism, has a far more solid basis. It is... recognise in their introduction, the “greatest contemporary challenge in space law [which dates largely from the late 1960s] is ...
30 July 2015
SpaceShipTwo crash: dramatic testimony by Peter Siebold could offer new clues for space tourism safety
... the SpaceShipTwo rocket failure happened over California last year, it was deemed to be a major setback for the space tourism industry. Co-pilot Michael Alsbury, who was judged responsible for the crash, perished. Pilot Peter Siebold...
