It has been an interesting couple of weeks for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and what appears to be the growing trend among high profile celebrities to sign up for flights aboard the V.S.S. Enterprise. Two weeks ago a Russian businessman reportedly paid the equivalent of $1.5 million at a benefit auction for the right to share a flight with Leonardo […]
Source: RIA Novosti Vladimir Popovkin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Saturday that British soprano Sarah Brightman may be bumped from a flight slot to ISS in 2015. According the report, NASA and Roscosmos may jointly decide to extend the duration of what would have been her flight from eight days to a month, effectively erasing her opportunity. Given that the purported […]
Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R) recently released an annual “Waste Book” detailing specific examples of perceived waste in the federal spending. As might be expected, NASA was not immune, being tagged for spending just under a million dollars on a Cornell University study which involves sending volunteers to a Mars simulation event in Hawaii to test the […]
The imagery accompanying Felix Baumgartner’s record setting jump on Sunday was both compelling in the moment, and evocative of moments gone by. The piercing clear blue sky, and the thin, ethereal nature of the balloon itself soon gave way to the infrared imagery of a single man plummeting through the atmosphere at a speed greater than that which most […]
Space Adventures yesterday confirmed rumours that Sarah Brightman will become the next space tourist. The world’s best selling soprano will fly on the Russian booster on a 10 day trip to the International Space Station at a date which has yet to be determined. The most likely time frame appears to be 2015, when two seats are opened on the Soyuz […]
Several news sources have reported that English Soprano Sarah Brightman and Space Adventures have scheduled a news conference on Wednesday, October 10 in Moscow, where it is expected she will be introduced as the next space tourist to visit the International Space Station. Brightman’s announcement would mark a resumption in tourism flights to ISS which were suspended when […]
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