A dream could come true for wealthy tourists by 2011. A spacecraft designed for them was unveiled on Monday. Backers of the venture hope it will signal a new era in aviation history. 200-thousand US dollars. That's what you'll have to pay for a 2-hour flights to space including about...
Virgin Galactic launched its sub-orbital spaceplane "Unity" on its first crewed flight in two years, carrying two pilots and four company astronauts to the edge of space in a final test flight before paying customers begin sub-orbital jaunts in June. The sleek rocketplane,...
For 200 thousand US dollars you may soon be able to boldly go where few men have gone before. Spacecraft manufacturers at the Zhuhai airshow in Southern China say they are trying to make recreational trips into outer space a reality by 2024. China's Long March Launch Vehicles have pushed ...
Short space trips for paying passengers on the way CAS Space, a Beijing-based rocket company, is designing a set of reusable rockets and spacecraft to send paying passengers on short trips into space. Yang Yiqiang, the founder of CAS Space, told China Daily on Wednesday if everything goes ...
Space exploration - Commercial, Transportation, Technology: The prosperity of the communications satellite business was accompanied by a willingness of the private sector to pay substantial sums for the launch of its satellites. Initially, most commercia
What makes a space activity “commercial” can be difficult to define. Some consider a commercial activity to be one in which a private sector entity puts its own capital at risk and provides goods or services primarily to other private sector entities or consumers rather than to the government...
And the Dragon capsule is reusable, and increasingly reused, as well. For example, the two most recent SpaceX resupply missions, which launched on July 25 and Dec. 6, respectively, featured Dragon spacecraft that had already made two trips to the orbiting lab. ...
While the move aims to boost commercial ventures in the low-Earth orbit economy, a hefty price tag and the physical strain of space travel will limit trips to the ISS to tech firms conducting research, writes a commentator for The Beijing News ...
Between road trips, class trips and whatever adventures pop up along the way, your family is going places. With available seating for up to eight, best-in-class cargo space and a suite of innovative tech and safety features, the New 2024 Traverse has everything you need to keep everyone ...
An orbital experiment system with different internal experiment locations within a reusable launch vehicle making daylong delivery trips to space. The experiments get access to the attributes of low earth orbit, the reusable launch vehicle's power and other subsystems. The experimenter utilizes uniform...