Locations are also being considered in the West Country and Scotland Would be the launching base for space tourism programmes Plans enthusiastically backed by Science Minister David Willetts Could become the home of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic programme Plans for a multi-million pound ‘space port’ in Britain were yesterday enthusiastically [...]
WASHINGTON, DC (NASA PR) — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Wednesday hailed the success of the agency’s public-private partnership with American companies to resupply the International Space Station and announced the next phase of contracting with U.S. companies to transport astronauts is set to begin next week. A little more than [...]
LAS CRUCES — Spaceport America released a fiscal 2015 budget this week that pushes back its estimates for when Virgin Galactic may begin its flights and when the visitor’s center will open. The budget assumes Virgin Galactic will start flying by August 2014, about six months later than previously expected. [...]
