Category Archives: Spaceflight

Today, Sir Richard Branson announced that Virgin Group has entered into an agreement to license the technology to develop the world�s first privately funded spaceships dedicated to carrying commercial passengers on space flights. The technology is currently owned by a Paul Allen company called Mojave Aerospace Ventures (�M.A.V.�) and was originally developed to fulfil Paul Allen�s vision of building the world�s first privately funded, reusable space vehicle (�SpaceShipOne�), which will undertake its first Ansari X Prize flight later this week. The licensing deal with M.A.V. could be worth up to �14 million ($21.5 million) over the next fifteen years depending on the number of spaceships built by Virgin. Continue reading →

NASA is assessing the damage from Hurricane Frances. They dodged a bullet with superficial damage to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and the facility that manufactures the Shuttle Thermal Protection System tiles and blankets. But with aproximately 1000 panels missing … Continue reading →

According to this story Hurricane Frances may be capable of ending the Space Shuttle Program.

Scaled composites is inviting the public to view the first privately funded and developed manned space flight, the next step to the Ansari X-Prize.