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- SpaceX Launch Scrubbed
- SpaceX to Launch Falcon 1
- China Launches Five-Day Space Flight
- SpaceShipOne Donated to Air and Space Museum
- You're Going Places, Alice
- Solar Spacecraft Launched...
- Blue Origin RLV
- NASA Administrator O'Keefe Steps Down
- SpaceShipOne Wins the Ansari X-Prize
- SpaceShipOne’s First Ansari X-Prize Flight
- Space Tourism Pioneer Starts Zero-Gravity Experience Flights
- Rocket Summer 2004
- On The Way!
- Name Change; License Granted; and a New Cost Paradigm
- SpaceShipOne To Fire Rocket Motor?
- 29 July 2012
- Added "Space Debris and Its Mitigation
" to the archive.
- 16 July 2012
- Space Future has been on something of a hiatus of late. With the concept of Space Tourism steadily increasing in acceptance, and the advances of commercial space, much of our purpose could be said to be achieved. But this industry is still nascent, and there's much to do. So...watch this space.
- 9 December 2010
- Updated "What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace
- 7 December 2008
- "What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace
- 30 November 2008
- Added Lynx
to the Vehicle Designs page.
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News / Vehicles (Bad)
27 July 2007 by Carol Pinchefsky
Three dead, three injured at Mojave Air and Space Port
Three people were killed and three injured during a test of a propulsion system for Scaled Composites
, the makers of SpaceShipOne and the work-in-progress, SpaceShipTwo.
, the makers of SpaceShipOne and the work-in-progress, SpaceShipTwo. News / Vehicles (Good)
23 July 2007 by Carol Pinchefsky
New home for SpaceShipTwo
by Carol Pinchefsky
News / Tourism (Good)
7 April 2007 by Carol Pinchefsky
Fifth space tourist launches from Baikonur
by Carol Pinchefsky
News / Vehicles (Bad)
20 March 2007 by Carol Pinchefsky
Re-launch to follow
MSNBC reports that the SpaceX launch of the Falcon 1 rocket scheduled for March 19, 2007, was scrubbed 62 seconds before launch. The article cited a telemetry problem, occurring perhaps when data transmission was switched from land line to radio.
News / Tourism (Good)
29 September 2006 by Carol Pinchefsky
...and brings a message of hope
by Carol Pinchefsky
News / Other (Good)
25 September 2006 by Carol Pinchefsky
Where no scalpel has gone before
by Carol Pinchefsky
News / Other (Bad)
18 September 2006 by Carol Pinchefsky
...greeted by "toxic irritant"
by Carol Pinchefsky
News / Tourism (Bad)
21 August 2006 by Carol Pinchefsky
Replacement to ISS to be determined
According to a BBC article Daisuke Enomoto, the Japanese businessman who had planned to travel to the
International Space Station, has failed his medical test.
, has failed his medical test. News / General (None)
19 June 2006 by Carol Pinchefsky
Looking for alternative fuel sources
According to this Register article, China plans to send astronauts to the moon in the year 2024. The article says the Chinese government is actively looking for Helium-3, a source of fuel abundant on the moon that may replace oil and gas.
News / Tourism (Good)
16 May 2006 by Carol Pinchefsky
A rush to build commercial space hubs
According to this CNN article, "The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing proposals from New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas to be gateways for private space travel."
is reviewing proposals from New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas to be gateways for private space travel." 
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