Archive for the 'Tech: Space: Human Spaceflight' Category
Cool NASA return-to-moon trailer
April 25th 2007 at 12:51 pm
I like the idea of NASA-released cool trailers like this.
What would be even slicker is if they snagged some of their budget and aired this stuff on prime time. I imagine there are laws, but if politicians can figure out how to clutter my viewing time I don’t see why NASA shouldn’t.
Nonetheless, cool video. Check […]
Blue Origins test launch: Amazon.com’s Bezos’ personal spaceship
January 4th 2007 at 7:27 am
Amazon.com Jeff Bezos, like a bunch of other dot commers and rich dudes, is frustrated by how little reality matches SF, and is working very hard on a private space program.
The Blue Origins project has been crowded in secrecy, but yesterday night I spotted a story with links to some footage I hadn’t seen before […]
NASA plans for a Moonbase!
December 6th 2006 at 11:26 am
NASA unveiled it’s mission to return to the moon by 2020, and it includes a permanent moonbase after axing the shuttle in 2010.
Still, 2020 is 13 years away. Not quite ‘end of the decade’ type rhetoric, but okay.
The main reason I’m interested in what NASA has been up to lately is that it might be […]
Trading in frequent flyer miles to go to space
September 30th 2006 at 4:16 pm
One Brit’s already traded in his frequent flyer miles for a trip aboard Virgin’s SpaceShip Two. Neat.
SpaceShip II
September 28th 2006 at 1:29 pm
Spaceship 1 amazed us by winning the X-prize. Spaceship 2 will be owned by Virgin Air and take paying passengers to the legal edge of space. Here are some more details:
SS2 will be about 60 feet (18.3 meters) long, twice the length of SpaceShipOne. While an animation of the flight shown at the press conference […]
