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IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
James Oberg |
Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off   |
Popular Mechanics
July 29, 2008
Barbara S. Peterson |
What Virgin's WhiteKnightTwo Really Means to the Future of Space Even with prototypes now just about ready to fly, how relevant is this self-styled New Space Race? |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
David Schneider |
Virgin Galactic Space Planes Should Launch This Year $200,000 buys you a seat and the end result should be something science-fiction writers have long dreamed of: regularly scheduled passenger flights into space. |
Popular Mechanics
December 9, 2009
Rand Simberg |
Virgin Galactic's Unveil Is Tip of the Iceberg for Private Spaceflight The ability to fly experimenters and their experiments into suborbit, regularly and cheaply, could be a game changer in terms of research progress. |
Inc.
January 2005
David H. Freedman |
Entrepreneur of the Year In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space. His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine -- and turn a big profit. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
David Noland |
The 'New Space' Race: Handicapping the Billionaire Rocketeers Fueled by interest in space tourism, as well as NASA contracts to replace the shuttle in 2010, the private "New Space" industry is finally looking like the real thing. |
Popular Mechanics
February 26, 2010
Rand Simberg |
Suborbital Safety: Will Commercial Spaceflight Ramp Up the Risk? Ever since the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, almost a quarter of a century ago, the watchword above all others at NASA has been "safety." Unfortunately, watchwords don't necessarily create actual safety, as we learned a little over seven years ago, with the loss of her sister ship Columbia. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Just Came A Step Closer To Carrying Humans To Space Between Boeing, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Xcor, and Blue Origin, the private space race is fully underway. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2009
Adrian Rush |
One Small Step Closer to Civilian Spaceflight Virgin Galactic promises a "theatrical unveil" as the world's first commercial passenger aircraft designed for space travel gets set for its unveiling in the Mojave Desert. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Virgin Takes Two Billionaire Sir Richard Branson sets his sights on the stars as work begins on SpaceShipTwo. |
Popular Mechanics
December 28, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics. |
Wired
January 2005
Spencer Reiss |
Rocket Man Richard Branson conquered the world with the Virgin brand. Now, through a deal being negotiated with SpaceShipOne's owners, he wants to fly you to space with Virgin Galactic, the world's first off-the-planet private airline. |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
Virgin Galactic and Burt Rutan Unveil SpaceShipTwo: First Look Burt Rutan's commercial spacecraft is 60 percent complete and test flights could occur this year. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Will Test Reusable Spacecraft Later This Year The company's New Shepard reusable capsule is designed to eventually carry tourists and science experiments to the edge of space. |
Popular Mechanics
March 26, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
California Startup XCOR Joins Space Tourism Race (With Video) Rocket engine manufacturer XCOR Aerospace offered a first look at its Lynx spacecraft, a uniquely designed two-seat plane that will be able to make several trips to space per day. |
Fast Company
January 9, 2012
Emma Haak |
Private Spacecrafts Are Your Transportation, Your Scientists, And Your Real Estate Brokers In the absence of NASA's Space Shuttle Program, private companies are left to fill the black hole of space exploration. Now, 50 years after John Glenn orbited the Earth, some very different kinds of explorers are leading the way. |
Wired
December 2004 |
After the X Prize Manned space travel's best hope is the private sector, not NASA. In the open market, entrepreneurs and space hobbyists will do in a decade what NASA couldn't do in 46 years: provide safe, reliable trips to the heavens for the cost of a Caribbean cruise. |
AskMen.com
May 29, 2008
Jacob Franek |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Space Tourism Here are a few things you probably didn't know, but may want to remember, if you're interested in space tourism. |
InsideFlyer
April 2008 |
60 Seconds with World's First Space Tourist Redeeming mileage for space travel. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2010
Tim Beyers |
This Rule Breaker Is Otherworldly Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is one of five companies that will share $50 million in stimulus funds designed to create commercial space vehicles that NASA will use to ferry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2010
John Keller |
Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation. |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2007
Christopher Palmeri |
Space: The Private Frontier "Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space" is a worthwhile overview of the budding business of space travel. |
Popular Mechanics
September 4, 2007
Jill Tarter |
Where Will the Next 50 Years in Space Take Us? Expert Opinions Leading thinkers from Buzz Aldrin (a robot fan) to Arthur C. Clarke (he wants a sub-orbital joyride) share their thoughts on where space will take us in the half-century ahead. |
Adventure
November 2005
Bonnie Tsui |
Adventure Travel 2006: The Best Trips: Space Space Adventures and Virgin Galactic are two companies likely to be selling rides into space by 2008. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2005
John Rhea |
The $10 billion NASA market NASA's budget for fiscal year 2006 envisions spending $10 billion for new competitive opportunities with industry, academia, and the agency's own field centers -- with the big-ticket item being the President's plan for returning humans to the Moon and exploring the planets. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Jennifer Bogo |
X Prize CEO Thinks Obama's 2010 NASA Budget Good for Space The new approach NASA has taken has laid the foundation for the Google, Cisco and Apple computers of space to be born. And, ultimately, lays the foundation for the rest of us to have a chance to get to go to space. |
Wired
July 2003
Carl Hoffman |
The Right Stuff Forget cyberspace. Geeks are about to conquer outer space. And the $10 million X Prize is just the beginning. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
Dream Job Alert! NASA Puts Out Call For New Astronauts NASA today put out a call for new astronauts, including those who might support a future manned mission to Mars. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Michael Belfiore |
7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle NASA's Orion won't be ready until at least 2015, but the current space shuttle is due to retire next year. Meet the seven international spacecraft from the world's space fleet that could inherit the job of ferrying supplies into space. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
David A. Mindell |
The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut How do you justify human spaceflight? |
Entrepreneur
April 2005
Mark Henricks |
Space Cowboys High-profile entrepreneurs pursue the final frontier. |
Popular Mechanics
January 27, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
What Happens If NASA's Constellation Program Dies? Reporters at the Orlando Sentinel created a stir today by breaking news -- citing anonymous sources -- that President Barack Obama's budget will not include any funds for hardware for NASA's human space flight program. |
Popular Mechanics
February 6, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
Win a Private Space Flight for $20--Pending Success of Commercial Spaceflight Sir Richard Branson hopes to offer tickets to ride in orbit for around $200,000. But new contests are promising flights for as little as $20. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2004
Seth Jayson |
SpaceDev Burns Rubber This is hardly a risk-free investment, but if you're the kind of person who wants to have a share of Harley-Davidson or Disney because you're a fan, here's your chance to own a bit of the next space race. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Facing Competition, SpaceShipTwo Gets Set: Behind the Scenes SpaceShipTwo, the first spacecraft expressly designed for tourists, may begin test flights in 2009. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Virgin Starts (70) Mile-High Club Airline entrepreneur Richard Branson aims to take his company to the final frontier. Virgin Galactic will allow tourists to enjoy 4 minutes of weightlessness in space. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
New Area 51: Mojave's Desert Outpost Holds Space Flight's Future With mysterious test flights, secret prototypes and next-gen spacecraft, this remote California airfield has become the hotbed of rebel aerospace. |
Reason
January 2005
George Passantino |
Private Flight SpaceShipOne, the privately funded space vehicle, has returned to earth with the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. That one small trip for a ship was a giant leap away from the government's monopoly on space travel. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Bezos: Up, Up, and Away! The Amazon founder is about to reach for the stars. His company, Blue Origin, will go head-to-head with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic in seeking to take adventuresome tourists to the precipice of orbit before returning to Earth. |
BusinessWeek
August 14, 2006
Kerry Capell |
Green is Virgin Territory Sir Richard Branson is a billionaire with a conscience, and he's turning his Virgin Group into a green empire while talking up conservation |
Scientific American
January 2009
George Musser |
Space Exploration Sticker Shock--Economics at NASA The laws of physics are easy; it's economics that vexes NASA |
Geotimes
September 2003
Fred Schwab |
Manned Space Exploration: Should We Give it Up? Do the risks of sending humans into space justify the ends? Is it time to de-emphasize "astronaut science," and to concentrate instead on unmanned missions into space |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Aldrin & Noland |
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Will Virgin Save You Money? Virgin America, the newest part of the British Virgin Group, started flying yesterday, offering discounted promotional fares to raise business. For existing carriers, this is bad news. For transcontinental passengers, it could be good. |
National Defense
April 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Desert Airport Becomes Home to New Breed of Space Entrepreneurs While there has been much consternation about the erosion of the space-industrial base in the United States, the facility shows that the field still attracts entrepreneurs who are enthralled by the glamour and challenge of space travel. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Future of the Space Business: How Private Rocketeers Got Real To achieve liftoff at this watershed moment when they could begin to usurp NASA's stranglehold on space, billionaires rely on the propulsive power of profit in an industry based on competition and smarts. |
Popular Mechanics
July 14, 2008 |
Inside Mojave Air and Space Port: Photo & Video Gallery Think you've seen the future of private spaceflight? Think again. Take a look at the freewheeling desert outpost where maverick engineers are inventing the next generation of planes. |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2010
Michael Belfiore |
Human Space Flight Needn't Rely on NASA: Guest Analysis Is Obama's just-released NASA budget the "death march for the future of U.S. human space flight," as Senator Richard Shelby proclaims on his website today? Or is it in fact a new beginning for the space agency? |
Popular Mechanics
November 2006
Logan Ward |
Burt Rutan: Final Frontiersman Rutan is working to make space travel cheap enough-and safe enough-for ordinary people to experience. If anyone can pull that off, says Apollo 11 astronaut and PM editorial adviser Buzz Aldrin, it's probably Rutan. |
