Enterprise spaceship dream is feasible, says an engineer with a passion for space exploration and a big Star Trek fan. Enterprise could be a worthy successor to the Apollo space program, hopes the creator of buildtheenterprise project. The new Enterprise ship can be similar in size and will have the same look as the USS … Read more
Abu Dhabi to New Mexico in no more than an hour Branson’s Virgin Galactic to build Spaceport Abu Dhabi Virgin Galactic, the world’s first space tourism company, will establish its second base in Abu Dhabi. Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides appointed Steve Landeene, an executive director of the Spaceport America project (from 2007 to 2010), with the … Read more
Smithsonian welcomes Discovery to space collection Space shuttle Discovery, the world’s most traveled spaceship, moved into its new home at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in northern Virginia. Discovery, mated to a specially modified Boeing 747, landed at Washington-Dulles International, where it was de- mated from the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and made … Read more
Inter-galactic business ventures. Clean-tech gate to near-space with a Space Balloon Low-carbon space travel is almost real. It is calm, it is quiet, it is private and it is bloon. zero2infinity from Spain is providing the dream of seeing the Earth from near-space and raising awareness of our place in the cosmos. bloon’s experience consists … Read more
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, expects to test fly its first spacecraft beyond the Earth’s atmosphere this year, with commercial suborbital passenger service to follow in 2013 or 2014, company officials said to reuters. Virgin Galactic is the most visible of a handful of companies developing spaceships for tourism, research, educational and business purposes. The suborbital … Read more
Swiss aim to launch first space cleaner The Swiss Space Centre at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), a top science university, announced the launch of CleanSpace as the first installment of a family of satellites designed to clear up space debris. According to EPFL, “16,000 objects larger than 10 centimetres in diameter and … Read more