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The personal spaceflight business – also known as space tourism – will face high hurdles from the insurance business in its early years, according to several industry experts.
Blast Investigation Delays Engine Work on SpaceShipTwo
NEW YORK —
An ongoing investigation into a fatal explosion at the Mojave spaceport last summer has delayed rocket engine development for the suborbital commercial passenger spacecraft SpaceShipTwo, the vehicle’s lead designer has said.
Planetarium to Honor Life of Fallen Arlington Son – Captain David M. Brown
Arlington, Virginia — The Arlington School Board unanimously approved a recommendation to name the Planetarium in honor of Captain David M. Brown. Captain Brown, a Yorktown High School graduate, died […]
Major Milestones Ahead for N.M. Spaceport
Golden
, Colo. — New Mexico’s Spaceport America, which is being billed as the first “purpose-built” commercial spaceport in the United States, must conquer some challenging milestones that lie ahead if it is to open in late 2009 or early 2010.
Dark energy, the Milky Way galaxy and giant planets: Sloan Digital Sky Survey continues
Building on eight years of extraordinary discoveries by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS and SDSS-II), a new program of four coordinated surveys will revolutionize the study of the distant […]