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Practically and privately, few people familiar with the SLS seriously contend it would be finished on time and on budget, much less compete with far less costly vehicles being built by Newspace companies. What makes it fly without ever leaving the ground is it carries one Very Important Political payload: the SLS will reliably deliver gobs of money to space shuttle contractors and a handful of related congressional districts for years and years after the last shuttle flies.
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As shuttle Endeavour complete its last voyage, the Obama administration’s commitment to human exploration remains as strong as ever, says NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.
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Forty years to the month after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, Dennis Tito showed that there was money to be made in human spaceflight -- lots of money, as he plunked down a reported $20 million for his flight.
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I've done a deep dive into NASA's selection process for its CCDev 2 awards. NASA chose eight finalists for due diligence and made four awards totaling $269.3 million, all largely focused on human vehicles.
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Developers of commercially operated spacecraft that will fly astronauts after the shuttle say they could be ready for missions in three or four years.
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A briefing at the Kennedy Space Center details NASA's recent awards of more than $269 million for the continued development of commercial transportation systems to carry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit.
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Officials from NASA and the four CCDev 2 winners held at press conference at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday morning to discuss the awards and where the companies are heading with their programs over the next year.
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WHAT: As we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Dennis Tito's pioneering orbital spaceflight, please join Eric Anderson and Richard Garriott as they outline the future of private exploration and announce new developments regarding the company's circumlunar mission.
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he four companies granted almost $270 million by NASA last week face an orchestrated series of hardware tests, design milestones and government reviews of their privately-developed spacecraft over the next year, according to documents released by NASA.
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The commercial spaceflight industry's potential to provide frequent and relatively inexpensive trips to the upper reaches of the atmosphere could revolutionize the science and research community.
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After decades of short-sighted parochialism, our space policy chickens are finally coming home to roost. This past Friday, Russian news agencies quoted a Russian Space Agency official as refusing to let “unsafe” vehicles dock to the International Space Station (ISS).
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SpaceX's millionaire founder, Elon Musk, says his rocket company can get humans to Mars in as little as 10 years. "Worst case, 15 to 20 years," he adds.
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In this 62 minute video Elon Musk and Alan Stern discuss the future of commercial spaceflight at CU-Boulder on April 29th, 2011.
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Space Adventures, a company that arranges space tourism, said it came to an agreement with Russia to expand flight opportunities starting in 2013.
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The company Space Adventures has already signed up one passenger for a trip around the moon. If it inks a second customer soon, the mission could be a reality within three to five years.
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LOS ANGELES — Scaled Composites marked a dramatic increase in the test rate of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) by completing two glide tests over five days, including a 16-min. 7-sec. glide on April 27 that represents the longest flight to date.
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The four companies that recently won Nasa funds to develop astronaut "taxis" say they are convinced there will be a market to sustain their businesses.
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SpaceX Commerical Crew Development CCDEV2 Video presented at KSC Press Conference, 28 April 2011.
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Washington (AFP) April 28, 2011 - A handful of companies competing to make the spaceship to replace the iconic US shuttle said Thursday they are racing to shrink what will be a long gap in flying Americans into space aboard US craft.
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Four private companies are the leading contenders to build commercial spaceships to carry astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station after the space shuttles retire.
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In concert with the CCDev briefing, SpaceX has released a press kit document highlighting the company's accomplishments, plans and participation in NASA's commercial cargo and crew program: SpaceX - Lifting off from Cape Canaveral: The Next Great American Adventure (pdf).
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NASA gave more weight to spacecraft designers than rocket builders in deciding which firms would receive nearly $270 million for development of commercial space vehicles, leaving companies like United Launch Alliance and ATK shut out of government money.
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Rendezvous and docking in orbit is tricky. Take a huge, complex target like the International Space Station, and the task becomes even trickier.
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