When Dennis Tito went to Washington last fall to lobby Congress to engage NASA in his Inspiration Mars concept for the 2018 crewed flyby of the Red Planet, the reception was cool at best. Hoping to salvage something from the idea, which had started off as a private mission concept using commercial hardware but quickly […]
Displaying a some ironic sense of timing regarding his faith in the federal government’s ability to put together complex programs in a short time frame, the world’s first space tourist and founder of Inspiration Mars, Dennis Tito went to Washington yesterday, where in a prepared statement, he essentially asked NASA to assume Inspiration Mars concept […]
On Friday, July 19th, NASA released a draft Request for Proposal for the next phase of the Commercial Crew competition, and with it came some new acronyms. Following Commercial Crew Integrated Capacity (CCiCap), the fourth and final phase will be called Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) and is intended to ” develop a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability […]
It may have lacked the drama and the exact setting of President Kennedy’s call for America to go to the Moon in 1961, but the city, Washington D.C. a place now much better known for what doesn’t get done, than what does, was the scene today for a new challenge issued to America to set out on bold […]
Late yesterday, NASAWatch published a press announcement on behalf of new organization, Inspiration Mars Foundation, which is scheduled to introduce a privately funded Mars mission to be launched in January 2018. The formal introduction will come at the National Press Club, 1:00 PM EST on February 27. At the moment, the nature of the mission is not at all clear, and drawing […]
Recent Comments