October 2024
Spaceport America’s road to the future
... and airspace protections. Our goal is to become a premier multi-modal spaceport for point–to-point space transportation, space tourism, aerospace operations, research development and testing The iconic terminal hangar facility was designed by London...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... trajectory, however there are current developments with the intention of using this method for sub-orbital space tourism flights. Space tourism and reusable launch vehicles require a spaceport which allows vehicles and people to return safely. This...
30 October 2017
Virgin Group and Saudi Arabia announce $1 billion deal
...Saudi Arabia have announced a partnership worth $1 billion to boost space tourism on the Red Sea as part of the states Neom ...would also see Branson’s suit of space companies provide suborbital space tourism flights from the Saudi capital, along ...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... are widely acknowledged as the most likely means of enabling commercial spaceflight experience flights - or as it is widely known ‘space tourism’ – in the near future. They also have the potential to transform the costs and flexibility of satellite...
03 October 2021
Test Gods - Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
... the story of Virgin Galactic’s 17-year struggle to bring a spaceship into service and render Richard Branson’s dreams of space tourism a reality. According to the book’s blurb, the author “knows Virgin Galactic intimately [having] spent nearly four...
02 December 2014
SpaceShipTwo lost
... of co-pilot Michael Alsbury. 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...
