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Virgin Galactic dedicates spaceport terminal building
Posted: Tue, Oct 18 8:07 AM ET (1207 GMT)
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic formally dedicated the terminal building that will host its suborbital spaceflights in New Mexico in a ceremony on Monday. The building, formally named the "Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space", will serve as a hangar for Virgin's SpaceShipTwo suborbital spacecraft and WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft as well as its operations center at Spaceport America. The building is the centerpiece of the $209-million spaceport built by the state north of Las Cruces. Monday's ceremony, attended by 150 of Virgin Galactic's 455 customers as well as other dignitaries, featured a captive carry flight of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo. Virgin has not set a schedule for when flight operations from the spaceport will begin, but expect to begin powered test flights of SpaceShipTwo from Mojave, California, early next year.Related Links:
Space Adventures confirms circumlunar mission plans
Posted: Fri, May 6 6:30 AM ET (1030 GMT)
Space tourism company Space Adventures confirmed Thursday that they plan to carry out a commercial mission around the Moon as early as the end of 2015, and have signed up one of the two customers for the trip. The circumlunar mission proposed by Space Adventures would feature two paying customers and one professional cosmonaut flying a Soyuz spacecraft, attached to a habitat module, around the Moon. The company confirmed in a telecon Thursday that they have signed one customer at a ticket price as high as $150 million, and are in negotiations with a second customer. If the deal for the second customer closes by the end of the year, as the company anticipates, the company says they could carry out the mission as soon as the end of 2015. Space Adventures also announced that they project 140 commercial customers, including tourists and commercial researchers, flying into orbit over the next decade, both to the ISS and proposed commercial facilities.SpaceShipTwo performs first "feathered" glide flight Posted: Thu, May 5 6:18 AM ET (1018 GMT) SpaceShipTwo, the commercial suborbital vehicle being developed by Virgin Galactic, performed its first glide flight Wednesday with its wings in a feathered configuration. The vehicle,... Researchers sign contracts for suborbital spaceflights Posted: Tue, Mar 1 5:22 AM ET (1022 GMT) A research organization announced Monday that it has purchased tickets from two commercial suborbital vehicle operators to fly its scientists into space to carry out... Space Adventures obtains Soyuz seats Posted: Thu, Jan 13 5:53 AM ET (1053 GMT) Space tourism company Space Adventures announced Wednesday that it has reached an agreement with the Russian space agency Roskosmos and RSC Energia to sell seats... |
Saturday, February 4
Space tours to the Moon - why not?
Voice of Russia — 6:05 am ET (1105 GMT) Trial lawyers object to spaceport limits
Las Cruces (NM) Bulletin — 6:02 am ET (1102 GMT) Friday, February 3
Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Ramping Up Toward Passenger Flights
SPACE.com — 7:11 pm ET (0011 GMT) Thursday, February 2
Tourist flight to Moon possible in 2017 - Roscosmos
Interfax — 7:39 pm ET (0039 GMT) Space Tourism: Enlightenment from the Final Frontier
World Policy Journal — 5:27 am ET (1027 GMT) Wednesday, February 1
Space Adventures sets target for circumlunar human flight: 2017
Houston Chronicle — 8:18 pm ET (0118 GMT) Richard “Lord British” Garriott in space: “I might just sit up in my window in orbit and write the next game” (interview)
VentureBeat — 12:44 pm ET (1744 GMT) It’s Starting to Make Sense
Albuquerque Journal — 5:53 am ET (1053 GMT) Sunday, January 29
The race to send civilians to space
KGET-TV Bakersfield, CA — 7:43 am ET (1243 GMT) Saturday, January 28
An Interview with Richard Garriott: Life’s a Game and Then You Die on Mars
Motherboard — 6:43 am ET (1143 GMT) |
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