Virgin Galactic Makes Second Suborbital Contract Announcement (XCOR Was First)
Updated: 2011-02-28 15:10:38
Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Virgin Galactic Makes Second Suborbital Contract Announcement XCOR Was First By Keith Cowing on February 28, 2011 10:10 AM No Comments Virgin Galactic to Fly Scientists to Space Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic , LLC , the world's first commercial spaceline , announced today the first ever commercial contracts to fly scientists into space for the purpose of conducting research experiments . Virgin Galactic's signed contract with the Southwest Research Institute is
Space Shuttle Discovery linked up to the International Space Station (ISS) today, Feb. 26, on her historic final voyage and still charting new frontiers by carrying the first ever joint space crew of humans and robots. The all veteran human crew is comprised of five men and one women including Commander Steve Lindsey, Pilot Eric [...]
An Era is Slowly Ending…
Those of you who were born in the early 1980s and after have always had sights like these to define what “near-Earth” space exploration looks like. For the past 30 years, shuttle launches and delicate orbital ballets have been standard fare for us all to watch.
But, as we all know, that [...]
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Here’s a collection of images from the historic final launch of space shuttle Discovery on February 24, 2011. (...)Read the rest of STS-133 Launch Day Gallery (536 words) © nancy for Universe Today, 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-133 Feed enhanced by Better [...]
Overcoming a down-to the-last second problem, space shuttle Discovery made history today, launching on its final mission to orbit. The most-traveled orbiter is carrying a crew of six astronauts and one human-like Robonaut, along with a new permanent storeroom and supplies for the International Space Station. After waiting nearly four months following the detection of [...]
Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs Bad Astronomy Creationists suffer defeat in Oklahoma How far away is the Moon Discovery waits for her final flight NASA just posted this lovely picture of the Space Shuttle Discovery sitting on its pad , awaiting the command to light her engines and take her final flight into . space Click to embiggen . The picture was taken a couple of weeks ago note the thin crescent Moon on the left . In fact , the sight of the Moon and the Orbiter together makes me a little sad . The Shuttles can’t get Americans back there , and barring this and one more flight of Endeavour later this year , it’ll be a while before we can
Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support NASA New Vision Statement Not so Popular By Marc Boucher on February 23, 2011 5:03 PM 40 Comments We asked and you answered . The question was do you like NASA's new vision statement To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all . humankind Of the 649 respondents , overwhelmingly 74 of our readers answered no , you don't like NASA's new vision statement . The question is why Let us and NASA know , your comments are . welcome
On the Planetary Society web site: Planetary Society Weighs in on NASA Budget
I was somewhat surprised that my earlier Dual-Fluid Depot post generated as much interest as it did. I didn’t think there were many people who cared about depots who hadn’t read any of the papers by Frank Zegler, Bernard Kutter, or myself on the topic. But I wanted to include an intro just for sake [...]