Swiss Space Systems Offers Customers Stock Opportunity
Own it! : Image Credit / Swiss Space systems Swiss Space Systems has found a rather unique way to offer customers of its parabolic flights the opportunity to become investors. According to the...
View ArticleKeeping the Dream Alive: The Cargo Only Dream Chaser Space Plane
One More Time: Dream Chaser / Sierra Nevada Corporation Sierra Nevada Corporation formally introduced the latest variant of its oft proposed but thus far underloved Dream Chaser space plane on Tuesday,...
View ArticleMars One Looking More and More Like “Mars None”
For Mars One, the hits just keep on coming. Coming on the heels of an MIT study which predicted would-be colonists would doe of hypoxia by the 68th day of a notionally permanent relocation to the Red...
View ArticleNASA, Masten Test New Mars Landing Technology
Image Credit: NASA Photo / Tom Tschida SpaceX is not the only organization making significant strides in autonomous landing technology. NASA.gov as a has a good writeup on the results of tests...
View ArticleSpaceX, ULA and the Delta IV
Delta Heavy / Image Credit United Launch Alliance An Innerspace Editorial: In what seems to be becoming something of an annual affair, it was SpaceX versus United Launch Alliance Round earlier this...
View ArticleMars One Fires Back
Image Credit : Mars One Mars One is addressing the criticism coming its way from a number of sources. In the below Youtube interview, the organization’s founder Bas Landorf challenges a recent piece...
View ArticleFor Sierra Nevada and Dream Chaser, the Chase Goes On
Image Credit: Sierra Nevada Corporation Sierra Nevada Corporation is keeping the “chase” in its Dream Chaser space plane. On March 17th, the company revealed its proposal for an unmanned version of...
View ArticleA Milestone Accomplished, and a Significant Discovery on Mars
Curiosity Self Portrait / Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Two noteworthy news stories from Mars. First, NASA’s diminutive but never say die rover Opportunity, which initially began its three...
View ArticleNASA Announces Option B (Or is it Plan 9)? From Outer Space
On Wednesday, March 25, NASA announced that it had reached a decision regarding which option the agency is to pursue as part of its Asteroid Redirect Mission, or ARM. In what came as no great surprise...
View ArticleNASA’s Year Long Mission Gets Underway
Launch of Expedition 43 / Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls It’s not a five year mission, and it certainly isn’t going anywhere “no-one has gone before,” but NASA’s longest manned space mission got...
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