Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger, two-pilot suborbital spacecraft, is expected to make its third powered test flight within a month, said the company’s chief executive George Whitesides. So far, about 650 customers have put down deposits or paid in full for rides aboard SpaceShipTwo, which now cost $250,000. SpaceShipTwo’s last [...]
Despite the two-week old government shutdown and NASA’s official online presence going completely dark, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have still been tweeting away and sharing some pretty spectacular snapshots. During the shutdown, NASA has kept Mission Control lights on at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, making [...]
BY SPACEFLIGHT NOW NASA has selected eight new candidates -- four men and four women -- to join the ranks of its astronaut corps. for missions to the International Space Station and beyond. Picked from the second-highest number of applicants in any previous rounds of astronaut selections, the space agency [...]
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 [...]
