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VEGA launch date set - 26 Jan 2012 - Hyperbola
Vega, the European Space Agency's new light launcher, has now got its maiden flight date set, for 26 January 2012. ESA had been hoping to launch during 2011, but the critical parameter was to get Vega launched between the 20...
Boeing teams with Space Adventures to sell tickets to Space Station | Technology | Los Angeles Times
Looking for a ticket to outer space? Chicago-based Boeing Co. announced Wednesday that it had struck a deal with Space Adventures, a private spaceflight marketing firm, to offer open passenger seats aboard the seven-person spaceship that Boeing is developing in Huntington Beach. The spaceship is
Boeing hands over space station keys to NASA
Boeing officially handed over U.S. portions of the International Space Station to NASA Friday.
Russia's hard work in space continues to pay off - Hyperbola
Never let it be said that spaceflight is not high profile in Russian society, whether it is the birthday of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, or the recent visit by the country's prime minister Vladimir Putin to Star City aka Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre
Chinese space tourism, Tiangong delayed - Hyperbola
I wrote for Flightglobal back in 2007 that China's government was looking at more commercial aspects for its space programme. One change that was seen was the selling of tickets to allow people to watch launches at the launch site
Space station finally gets its window - Flight Image of the Day
The International Space Station crew now have a better view of the station's exterior after the installation of the cupola window and the last major habitable module for the ISS US segment. Continue reading...Hyperbola Blog: NASA's video of the window's...
Is Obama's NASA returning to 1970's IPP option one sans Shuttle? - Hyperbola
A US space agency has undertaken a major manned Moon programme, a new administration is not prepared to fund it any further, vehicles are being cancelled and a report provides options for what happens next, sound familiar? It should it is what NASA has gone through over the last year and it is what
International Space Station partners welcome Obama plan - Hyperbola
The joint statement by the International Space Station partners can be found here welcoming president Barack Obama's comitment to extending ISS use and the boost for station related space operations in the fiscal year 2011 budget request.
PICTURE: Dreamchaser docks with International Space Station - Hyperbola
In the picture above Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dreamchaser reusable vehicle concept docks with the International Space Station. Of NASA's five Commercial Crew Development initiative funded space act agreements announced on 2 February Sierra Nevada won the largest sum, $20 million out of a total
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