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| 2008 |
April
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| 14th | Added "Flight Mechanics of Manned Sub-Orbital Reusable Launch Vehicles with Recommendations for Launch and Recovery " to the archive. |
March
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| 31st | Updated the Space Future Journal  RSS feed with expanded content. |
| 23th | Added "Economic Benefits of Space Tourism to Europe" to the archive. |
| 21st | Updated the Logo! |
February
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| 29th | Added "Mex-LunarHab (MLH) - A Mexican Space Habitat Settlement on the Moon" to the archive. |
January
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| 14th | Added "Thomas Cook to Space Tourism - Are They Really That Different?" to the archive. |
| 2007 |
November
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| 19th | Added "The Moon as a Solar Power Satellite" to the archive. |
August
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| 16th | Added Astrium Space Jet and BSC SpaceShip to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 7th | Added "The Symbiotic Relationship between Astronaut Program and Space Tourism Development - A Third World Perspective" to the archive. |
July
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| 5th | Updated the Space Tourism timeline. |
May
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| 30th | Added "New Commercial Opportunities in Space" to the archive. |
April
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| 15th | Added "The Economic Benefits of Space Tourism" to the archive. |
| 11th | Updated the Space Tourism timeline. |
| 8th | Expanded SpaceShipOne entry to include SpaceShipTwo on Vehicle Designs page. |
March
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| 31st | Added New Shepard and Rocketplane XP to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 2006 |
November
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| 6th | Added "Designing the Orbital Space Tourism Experience" to the archive. |
February
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| 18th | Added "Equatorial Low Earth Orbit, an ideal orbit for In-Space Construction; and Equatorial Spaceports, as Gateways for Orbital Construction" to the archive. |
| 2005 |
December
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| 5th | Added "Why Implementing the Space Option Is Necessary for Society" to the archive. |
September
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| 12th | Added "The Potential Importance of Passenger Space Travel Services" to the archive. |
May
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| 7th | Added "The "Signal-to-Noise Ratio" in Financing New Space Startups" to the archive. |
February
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| 17th | Added "Benefits of International Cooperation in a Low Equatorial Orbit SPS Pilot Plant Demonstrator Project" to the archive. |
| 19th | Added "Synergies Between Solar Power Supply from Space and Passenger Space Travel" to the archive. |
| 2004 |
September
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| 30th | Added "Spaceport Business - Potential Markets Through 2020" to the archive. |
February
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| 29th | Added "Space Tourism: Recent Progress and Future Prospects" to the archive. |
| 2003 |
December
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| 15th | Added "The Future of Lunar Tourism" to the archive. |
November
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| 1st | Added "Lessons of ASCENT - Messages for Industry, the Federal Government and Spaceport Authorities" to the archive. |
October
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| 30th | Added "Project and Test Engineering Methodology" to the archive. |
| 28th | Added "Growing Popular Interest in Space Tourism: Challenge and Opportunity for Space Agencies" to the archive. |
September
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| No updates this month due to space consulting work and finishing the next edition of Professional Apache, now published by |
August
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| 10th | Added "Public Space Markets - What We Know And What We Don't Know" and "The ASCENT Study - Understanding the Market Environment for the Follow-on to the Space Shuttle" to the archive. |
July
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| 15th | Added "Space Tourism Market Demand and the Transportation Infrastructure" to the archive. |
| 14th | Added "The First 100 Years of Public Space Travel" to the archive. |
June
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| Space Future migrated to a new server this month; normal service will be resumed bext month. |
May
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| 22nd | Added Black Armadillo to the Vehicle Designs page. |
April
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| 24th | Added SpaceShipOne and White Knight to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 10th | Added "How the 21st-Century Society Can Sustain the Implementation of the Space Option" and "The Prospects for Space Commerce in the Aftermath of 9-11" to the archive. |
March
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| 31st | Added "New Credit Tools and Tax Concepts for the Opening of the Space Frontier" to the archive. |
| 21st | Added "ASCENT Study Final Report - Executive Summary" to the archive. |
February
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| 28th | Added "The Copernican Evidence - Requirements for a Space Age Philosophy" to the archive. |
January
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| 28th | Added
Alpha CX-1A to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 2nd | Added "A Code of Ethics and Standards for Lunar Development and Outer-Space Commerce", "Lunar Ethics and Space Commercialization", "From Earth to Mars: A Cooperative Plan" and "The Ethical Commercialization of Outer Space" to the archive. |
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| 2002 |
December
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| 17th | Added "Developing Viable Financing Models for Space Tourism" to the archive. |
November
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| 28th | Added "On the Practical and Sporting Aspects of Football in Zero-Gravity" to the archive. |
| 3rd | Added "How the West Wasn't Won" (also known as 'NAFA') to the Vehicles section. |
| 2nd | Added "Japanese Rocket Society's Rocket Symposia 1995-2001" and "The Cost to Taxpayers of Governments' Anti-Space Tourism Policy and Prospects for Improvement" to the archive. |
October
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| 14th | Added "Meeting the Needs of the New Millennium: Passenger Space Travel and World Economic Growth" to the archive. |
| 4th | Added "$pace: The Final Financial Frontier", "Space Tourism After Dennis Tito", "A Code of Ethics for Off-Earth Commerce", and "The Obstacles to Financing New Space Industries" to the archive. |
September
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| 12th | Added "Flight Demonstration and a Concept for Readiness of Fully Reusable Rocket Vehicles" to the archive. |
August
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| 29th | Added "Space Tourism and RLVs: You Can't Have One Without the Other!" and "The Business of Commercializing Space" to the archive. |
| 8th | Added "Towards Space Tourism: The Challenge for British Space Policy" to the archive. |
July
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| 31st | Added "Interests of Japanese Airlines in Space" to the archive. |
| 30th | Added the Xerus and
Cosmopolis XXI suborbital spaceplanes to the Vehicle Designs page. |
May
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| 24th | Mozilla sidebar tabs are now available for the What's New and Space Future Journal panels - see the channels page for details. |
| 21st | The Bibliography has undergone a comprehensive reorganization and is now much more detailed. In addition, a degree of sideways navigation between related topics is now possible. |
April
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| 28th | Space Future took a rest this month while working on Professional Apache 2.0. Buy a copy and make this webmaster very happy! |
March
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| 29th | Added "Designing Reusable Launch Vehicles for Future Space Markets" to the archive. |
February
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| 4th | Added "Changing the TransHab: An Orbiting Space Hotel" to the archive. |
January
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| 31st | Substantially updated the Space Tourism timeline for 2001. |
| 28th | Updated "Demand for Space Tourism in America and Japan" with improved figures . |
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| 2001 |
December
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| 31st | Added "Future Space Transportation Study" and "System Requirements for Commercial Passenger Travel to LEO" to the archive. |
| 29th | Printable version and referee information links are now offered at the top of all papaers in the archive. |
| 16th | Wireless Journal and Update channels are now available - try them out! |
| 13th | Improved and rebuilt the Directory of Contents. |
October
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| 31st | The Space Future Journal has a new look to match the front page - tell us what you think. The topic areas, glossaries, and search page have also been rennovated. |
| 24th | Updated the Vehicle Designs page with a new look and updated entries for
Roton,
X-33, and
X-34. |
| 11th | Added "A Celestial Body is a Celestial Body is a Celestial Body" to the archive. |
| 9th | Added "The Space Settlement Initiative" to the archive. |
| 2nd | Space Future was down over the weekend due to a total hard disc failure. Fortunately we keep good backups! However, if you sent us email and it bounced, please send it again. |
September
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| 18th | Added "Researching the Space Tourism Market" to the archive. |
| 6th | Added "Hearing on Space Launch Initiative: Testimony by Tom Rogers" and "Hearing on Space Launch Initiative: Testimony by Steven Hoeser" to the archive. |
August
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| 30th | Added "Hearing on Space Tourism: Testimony by Buzz Aldrin", "Hearing on Space Tourism: Testimony by Edward Hudgins", and "Hearing on Space Tourism: Testimony by Dennis Tito" to the archive. |
| 25th | Space Future has a new redesigned front page - let us know what you think of it! |
| 16th | Added "Space Tourism - Its Importance, Its History, and a Recent Extraordinary Development" and "Evolution of the Modern Cruise Trade and its Application to Space Tourism" to the archive. |
| 15th | Added "Space Flight Certification Requirements for Civilian Passengers" to the archive. |
| 13th | Added "Dreams - About Space" to the archive. |
| 12th | Added "The Prospects for Space Tourism" and "Why It Is Important To See A Potentially Large Space Travel And Tourism Business Created In The United States" to the archive. |
July
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| 30th | Added "Space Travel and Tourism: A Response to Continuing Decay in US Civil Space Financial Support" to the archive. |
| 29th | Updated the Thunderbird entry and added Nova to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 26th | Added "Security Implications of Non-Terrestrial Resource Exploitation" to the archive. |
| 15th | Added "Lunar Real Estate: Buyer, Beware!" to the archive. |
June
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| 4th | Added "Barriers to Space Enterprise" to the archive. |
April
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| 22nd | Added "How Much New Technology is Required for Future Reusable Launch Systems?" to the archive. |
March
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| 27th | Added Canadian Arrow to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 17th | Added "The Legal Regime for Private Activities in Outer Space" to the archive. |
| 16th | Added "Real Property Rights in Outer Space", "Implications of a Proposal for Real Property Rights in Outer Space", and "Proposal for a Multilateral Treaty Regarding Jurisdiction and Real Property Rights in Outer Space" to the archive. |
| 12th | Added daVinci to the Vehicle Designs page. |
February
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| 19th | Added "The Prospects for Passenger Space Travel" to the archive. |
| 16th | As Mind-It now charges, email update notifications are no longer supported. To receive updates in the future please subscribe to the sf-announce mailing list. |
| 15th | Added SpaceClipper to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 12th | Added "Space Hotels - Civil Engineering's New Frontier" to the archive. |
| 10th | Added "Public Choice Economics and Space Policy: Realising Space Tourism" to the archive. |
January
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| 1st | Added "Orion's Laser: Hunting Space Debris" to the archive. |
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| 2000 |
December
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| 29th | Added "Status Report on Space Tour Vehicle "Kankoh-maru" of Japanese Rocket Society" and "A Draft of Safety Standard for Designing Space Tour Vehicles" to the archive. |
| 27th | Added figures for 'Orbital Considerations in Kankoh-Maru Rendezvous Operations' and 'Orbital Considerations in Kankoh-Maru Return Flight Operations'. |
| 22nd | Updated the Space Tourism timeline. |
November
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| 9th | Added "An Alternative Strategy Process for Planning Government Space Programs" to the archive. |
| 7th | Added "Space Tourism for Europe: A Case Study" to the archive. |
| 6th | Added "Investigation on the Economic and Technological Feasibility of Commercial Passenger Transportation into Low Earth Orbit" to the archive. |
October
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| 27th | Added "The Cost of Capital for Space Tourism Ventures" to the archive. |
September
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| 16th | Updated the Thunderbird image on the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 12th | Added "Space Policy, Space Tourism and Economic Policy" to the archive. |
August
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| 30th | Updated the Space Tourism timeline. |
June
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| 16th | Added "Near-Term Prospects For Space Tourism" to the archive. |
| 9th | Added "Inhabiting Artificial Gravity" to the archive. |
May
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| 21st | Added Kitten, Calico and Angora to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 15th | Added "Creation of an Accredited Passenger Regulatory Category for Space Tourism Services" to the archive. |
April
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| 30th | Added "Orbital Sports Stadium" to the archive. |
February
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| 28th | Added "The Space Tourism Industry in 2030" to the archive. |
| 15th | Added "The Space Tourist" to the archive. |
January
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| 20th | Added "Public Attitudes towards Space Solar Power" to the archive. |
| | Added Space Access to the Vehicle Designs page. |
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| 1999 |
December
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| 11th | Added "Space Tourism and its Effects on Space Commercialization" and "Space: The New Tourism Market" to the archive. |
November
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| 16th | Added "The Future of Space Tourism" to the archive. |
| 15th | Added "Single Stage to Orbit Vertical Takeoff and Landing Concept Technology Challenges" to the archive. |
| 1st | Added "General Public Space Travel and Tourism Volume 2 - Workshop Proceedings" to the archive. |
October
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| 16th | Added "Mining Economics and Risk-Control in the Development of Near-Earth-Asteroid Resources" to the archive. |
| | Updated the Space Tourism in Science Fiction page. |
| 15th | Added "An Equatorial SPS Pilot Plant" to the archive. |
| 13th | Added "Collaboration with Aviation - The Key to Commercialisation of Space Activities" to the archive. |
September
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| 29th | Added "Global Cooperation for an Equatorial SPS Pilot Plant" and "Orbital Considerations in Kankoh-Maru Return Flight Operations" to the archive. |
| 7th | Added Michelle-B to the Vehicle Designs page. |
August
|
| No updates this month, I've been far too busy writing Professional Apache, due out in your local bookstore in November - buy a copy and make this webmaster very happy! |
July
|
| 30th | Added "The Future of Commercial Airlines" to the archive. |
| 18th | Added "An evaluation of the potential demand for Space Tourism within the United Kingdom" to the archive. |
| | Added "Getting to Low Earth Orbit" to the archive. |
June
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| 4th | Added "Considerations Towards the Legal Framework of Space Tourism" to the archive. |
May
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| 29th | Added Proteus to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 28th | Added "Phoenix M: A Small SSTO Launch Vehicle for Commercial Space Transport Missions" to the archive. |
| | Added
HOTOL to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| 27th | Updated the
Roton image on the Vehicle Designs page with a photo of the
Roton ATV, added
HOTOL to the Past Projects section, and (grudgingly) moved DCX to the Past Projects section. |
| 26th | Added "Human Factors and Health in Space Tourism" to the archive. |
| 24th | Added "Space Hotels: The Cruise Ship Analogy" to the archive. |
April
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| 28th | Added "Some Aspects of Space Navigation Law" to the archive. |
| 27th | Added issue 6 of Equatorial Times to the power section. |
| 26th | Added "The Cultural Effect of Space Tourism on the Space Industry and Society" to the archive. |
| 20th | Added "Space Activities, Space Tourism and Economic Growth" and "Space Tourism in Japan - the Growing Consensus" to the archive. |
| 14th | Added "Concept of Operations in the National Airspace System in 2005 " to the archive. |
March
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| 24th | Added "A Cost Engineered Launch Vehicle for Space Tourism" to the archive. |
February
|
| 9th | Added
Star-Raker to the designs page. |
January
|
| 26th | All new look and feel for the Space Future Journal - check it out! |
| 10th | Added "Economically Viable Public Space Travel" to the archive. |
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| 1998 |
December
|
| 20th | Minor fixes and general housekeeping. |
November
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| 17th | Added "The Imminent Space Revolution - How the UK Can Take the Lead" to the archive. |
| 12th | Updated the Space Tourism timeline. |
| 10th | Added "Space Tourism - The Key to Low Cost Access to Space" to the archive. |
| 3rd | Added "Report of Working Group No. 4 of the AIAA/CEAS/CASI Workshop on International Cooperation in Space" to the archive. |
| 1st | Added "A Few Things You Occasionally Wanted To Know About Wireless Power Transmission", "Beam It Down: How the New Satellites Can Power the World" and "Low Mass Solar Power Satellites Built From Terrestrial or Lunar Materials" to the archive. |
October
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| 31st | Added "The Technical and Economic Feasibility of Mining the Near-Earth Asteroids" and "Solar Power Satellites: An Idea Whose Time Has Come" to the archive. |
| 29th | Fixed a problem with abstracts not appearing for some of the papers in the long library listing. |
September
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| 29th | Added "Progress Towards Space Tourism in Japan" to the archive. |
| 25th | Added "Future Demand for Microwave Power from Space in China and Indonesia" to the archive. |
| 24th | Added "Legal and Regulatory Issues for Passenger Space Travel" to the archive. |
| 11th | Added "Zero-Gravity Sports Centers" to the archive. |
| 10th | Added "Artificial-Gravity Swimming-Pool" to the archive. |
| | Fixed a problem with the library listing that caused less papers to appear in the list than are actually present in the archive. |
| 4th | Added "Space Tourism: Exploring a New Industry" and "Space Tourism: A Flight of Fantasy or the Next Major Space Product?" to the archive. |
| 3rd | Added "Reusable Space Transportation - The Key Infrastructure Element In Opening the Space Frontier To the Public" to the archive. |
August
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| 31st | Added "Humanity's Future in Space" to the archive. |
| 12th | Added "Space Elevators, Space Hotels and Space Tourism" to the archive. |
| 11th | Updated Space Tourism in Science Fiction - keep 'em coming. |
July
|
| 10th | Added "Access to Space: SSX" to the archive. |
| 9th | Added
Barron Hilton's 1967 speech "Hotels in Space" to the archive. |
| 3rd | New page Space Tourism in Science Fiction - contributions to this page are encouraged! |
June
|
| 10th | Added "Decision Points" to the archive. |
May
|
| 15th | Updated the Space Tourism timeline. |
| 14th | New page The Business Case for Orbital Hotels in the Habitat section. |
| | Updated Orbital Hotel Design in the Habitat section. |
| 13th | Updated Accommodation in Orbit in the Habitat section. |
| 12th | New page Large Scale Structures in the Power section. |
April
|
| 28th | Added issue 5 of Equatorial Times to the power section. |
| 27th | Added "RLV Design Optimization for Human Presence in Space" to the archive. |
| 24th | The library interface now comes in long and short versions. |
| 9th | All new home page! Let us know what you think. |
| 8th | New Library page, an alternative to the Bibliography for accessing (only) papers in the archive. |
March
|
| 27th | Added "Tourism in Low Earth Orbit: The Trigger for Commercial Lunar Development?" to the archive. |
| 26th | Added the joint NASA/STA study report "General Public Space Travel and Tourism" to the archive. |
| 25th | Added Steve Bennet's X-Prize contender Thunderbird to the Vehicle Designs page. |
| | Returned the mailing lists to full operation. |
| 24th | Updated the Masthead. |
February
|
| 25th | Changed the Papers & Publications database to list documents that are present in the archive before those that aren't, plus a few cosmetic improvements. |
| 24th | Added "The SSX Concept" to the archive. |
| 19th | Updated the Space Tourism timeline. |
| 11th | Cross-linked all the articles in the Space Future Journal. |
| 4th | Added "Comments on Certification Standards for New Reusable Launch Vehicles" to the archive. |
January
|
| 30th | Added "A Fresh Look at Space Solar Power: New Architectures, Concepts and Technologies" to the archive. |
| 26th | Updated and refreshed links for every paper and document on the site. |
| | Categorised papers into Habitat, Power, Tourism and Vehicles for the Directory of Contents |
| 25th | Added the
Rotary Rocket logo to the relevant archive papers. |
| 9th | Added "GEODE - Commercial Space Production Facility" to the archive. |
| | Added issue 4 of Equatorial Times to the power section. |
| 8th | Added "The Deimos Water Company" and "Historical Analogies Potentially Applicable To The Commercialization Of Space Activities" to the archive. |
| 5th | Added the Pogo booster to the Vehicle Designs page and added a picture to the entry for Star Booster. |
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| 1997 |
December
|
| 19th | Added issue 3 of Equatorial Times to the power section. |
| | Added the
JRS logo to those papers in the archive that originated from the
Japanese Rocket Society. |
| 2nd | Added "Some Views on Space Tourism from the United States" to the archive. |
November
|
| 27th | Added issue 2 of Equatorial Times to the power section. |
| 26th | Added "History of the Phoenix VTOL SSTO and Recent Developments in Single-Stage Launch Systems" to the archive. |
| 24th | Updated the
Roton entry in the Vehicle Designs page and provided it with a new image of the current design. |
| 21st | Added the first issue of Equatorial Times to the power section. More issues to follow. |
| 4th | Added "Conceptual Study of A Solar Power Satellite, SPS 2000" to the archive. |
October
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| 31st | Added Space Cruiser System to the designs page. |
| 30th | Added "A Common Cost Target of Space Transportation for Space Tourism and Space Energy Development" and "Throttling Dynamic Response of
LH2 Rocket Engine for Verticle Landing Rocket Vehicle" to the archive. |
| 16th | Added "European launch vehicle development: a commercial approach", "Power From Space for the Next Century" and "An evolutionary satellite power system for International demonstration in developing nations" to the archive. |
| 9th | Added several new items to the 1995, 1996 and 1997 sections in the
SPS timeline. |
| | Collection of items added to the SFJ Press section. Many more to come (allegedly). |
September
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| 30th | Added "Artificial Gravity and the Architecture of Orbital Habitats", "The Architecture of Artificial Gravity: Theory, Form, and Function in the High Frontier", and "Funding the Development of a Space Tourism Industry" to the archive. |
| 10th | Fixed a problem that prevented some pages from displaying properly on some browsers (seemingly Macs running Netscape 3). |
| 2nd | Added Ascender to the designs page, and added pictures for Spacebus and
Sanger. |
August
|
| 29th | Added "Prospects for Inexpensive Space Transportation" to the archive. |
| 22nd | Added "The Promise of Reusable Launch Vehicles for SPS" to the archive, albeit without pictures as of yet. |
| | Fixed all papers in the archive with wide pictures to use the margin. All papers should now fit in the standard 640 (580) pixels. |
| 20th | 25 new organisations complete with URLs added to the Who's Who. |
| | Added Space Van and SpaceCub vehicles to the designs page. |
| | Mailing list system tweaks. Unsubscribe footer text automatically added to all outbound list mail. |
| 19th | Added Cosmos Mariner and CAC-1 vehicles to the designs page. |
| | Reorganised designs page into current and past vehicles |
| 8th | Improved version of the Space Future Journal installed - the new version can navigate and search by date and link to related articles but still has a little way to go. |
| 6th | Crossreferenced several new versions of documents in the topics areas. |
| 1st | Added definitions and descriptions to all the terms currently defined. |
July
|
| 29th | Added 3 papers from the ISCOPs conference - see the news for details. More to follow. |
| 21st | Space Future opens! |
