The National Space Society is seeking papers and speakers to discuss the latest issues in space technology, science, policy, commerce, medicine, exploration, settlement and more.
This year’s conference theme, “The New Pace of Space” highlights exciting new developments across the space community, from NASA’s Constellation program to the advent of space tourism.
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Articles in category 'Space Travel'
Next time your travel plans take you to Northern Sweden, you should try swinging by Kiruna, the future European base for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic passenger space program. Officials there are busy whipping the town into shape for Virgin’s arrival — evaluating their infrastructure, researching weather issues, and working out potential regul
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MIAMI (AFP) - NASA wants astronauts who will return to the moon to take one long step for mankind. The US space agency hopes to build moon bases that can house astronauts for stays of up to six months, with an intricate transportation and power system, Carl Walz, director of NASA’s Advanced Capabilities Division, […]
How am I supposed to fly a spaceship through this mess? This picture is from the recent ESA sky-survey. They have a page up at their site charting the evolution of space trash from the year of Sputnik to today.
We need to get this ish under control. Firms need to coordinate their […]
In the hypercompetitive world of commercial spaceflight, you need deep pockets just to stay in the game. That’s why some customers and investors are losing confidence in Rocketplane, which spent 2007 getting outflanked by better-funded competitors and being buffeted by bad publicity — instead of launching its first suborbital flight, as the compan
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Failure breeds promise …
SpaceX’s Falcon 1 failed to achieve orbit after experiencing a roll anomaly, but the boosters worked brilliantly. The impact of this failure is not completely known to us at this time. Several DoD-affiliated experiments were onboard the rocket.
Personally I’m not a fan of the booster-takeoff and splash-down model that has […]
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