The Houston Airport System sees the potential for the city to be a leading player in commercial spaceflight and presented plans Thursday to build a spaceport at Ellington Field. Mario Diaz, the Director of Aviation at the Houston Airport System, presented a plan to City Council's Budget and Fiscal Affairs [...]
SETI INSTITUTE, Mountain View, CA – PayPal today announced the launch of PayPal Galactic, an initiative that addresses the issues to help make universal space payments a reality. PayPal Galactic brings together leaders in the scientific community, including the SETI Institute and Space Tourism Society, to prepare and support the [...]
From Yahoo.com courtesty of Space.com If humanity is serious about traveling to other star star systems in the foreseeable future, it needs to get the ball rolling now, say experts who have organized an upcoming conference on the subject. Pulling off our species' first interstellar spaceflight will require many decades of hard [...]
BY KRISTIAN VON BENGTSON for Wired News Little over six months ago I had the pleasure of reading about a DIY space-suit project by Anthropologist Cameron M. Smith of Portland, Oregon, on wired.com. Immediately I fell in love with his work, approach and design. I wrote Cameron Smith ASAP and saluted his work [...]
