Challenger Center hosts new educational science demonstrations for students from the International Space Station Alexandria, VA – Challenger Center for Space Science Education presents new science demonstration videos for students […]
Showing results for:
Virgin Orbit
4,285 results found Sort by:
Posted inOpinion
Editorial: A Little Caution Doesn’t Hurt
NASA is getting pressure from backers of the nascent suborbital tourism industry to commit to flying scientific experiments aboard vehicles being developed to carry paying passengers to the edge of space. Industry advocates warn that the
U.S.
space agency risks missing early flight opportunities by not funding experiments now so as to have them ready to fly when vehicles such as Virgin Galactic’s planned SpaceShipTwo begin commercial operations within the next few years.
Posted inLaunch
Armadillo, Rocket Racing To Build Tourist Space Vehicle
GOLDEN, Colo. — Armadillo Aerospace and Rocket Racing Inc. are joining forces to fly paying customers to the edge of space as soon as 2010.
Posted inPress Release
Dawn Glides Into New Year
JPL’s Dawn spacecraft shut down its ion propulsion system today as scheduled. The spacecraft is now gliding toward a Mars flyby in February of next year. “Dawn has completed the […]
Posted inNews
NASA Loses Key Congressional Allies in Watershed Election
WASHINGTON
— When the 111th Congress is seated in January, NASA will lose a few key allies in the House of Representatives but gain a new supporter in the Senate.
Posted inPress Release
PTR Group Celebrates Third Successful Launch of the Year
The PTR Group, Inc., a leading real-time and embedded technology and engineering services provider, today announced that another satellite that it helped develop, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), was successfully […]
Posted inCommercial
OpEd: The Business of Personal Spaceflight
The truly new industry of personal spaceflight is poised for liftoff.
