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" to the 2009 revision.
7 December 2008
"What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace" is now the top entry on Space Future's Key Documents list.
30 November 2008
Added Lynx to the Vehicle Designs page.
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24 January 2008 by Carol Pinchefsky
New design, larger capacity
by Carol Pinchefsky
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.
News / Vehicles (Good)
23 July 2007 by Carol Pinchefsky
New home for SpaceShipTwo
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 / Vehicles (Bad)
27 November 2005 by Carol Pinchefsky
Rescheduled launch date not set
The SpaceX launch of their rocket, Falcon 1, has been scrubbed. According to CEO of Space Explorations, Elon Musk, "an auxiliary liquid oxygen ( LOX) fill tank had a manual vent valve incorrectly set to vent. The time it took to correct the problem resulted in significant LOX boiloff and loss of helium, and it was the latter that caused the launch abort."
News / Vehicles (Good)
21 November 2005 by Carol Pinchefsky
And at a price that's nice
On 25 November 2005, SpaceX will be launching their rocket, Falcon 1, from an atoll in the Marshall Islands. The payload is a satellite which measures "plasma space phenomena."
News / Vehicles (Good)
12 October 2005 by Carol Pinchefsky
Capitalists one; communists two
by Carol Pinchefsky
News / Vehicles (Good)
7 October 2005 by Carol Pinchefsky
Retiring in style
According to this CNN article , SpaceShipOne will be enjoying a healthy retirement at the Smithsonian Institute's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..
News / Vehicles (Good)
13 June 2005 by Alan Breakstone
Three passengers, weekly flights
by Alan Breakstone
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4 October 2004 by Carol Pinchefsky
Private spaceflight is no longer a dream
by Carol Pinchefsky
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