Only earlier this month we wrote about Virgin Galactic teaming up with NBC for a new TV show with the top price being a space flight, when we noticed this competition published in a UK newspaper: In summary, the competition which closes at midnight this Sunday coming requires you to enter your details together with … Read More “UK Lottery Competition In Partnership With XCOR” »
As is becoming more obvious every day to those reading up on the latest in space travel, humanity will soon enter a new era. The day a friend or family member will be sitting at the dinner table, talking about how an acquaintance flew into space with one of these entrepreneurial companies will not be … Read More “How to get hired by a spaceline” »
Looking at the near-future, we can safely start saying that the second half of this decade will see the rise of a new industry: space tourism. One of the companies that will do battle in this arena is XCOR Aerospace, a small American private rocket engine and spaceflight development company originally based at the Mojave … Read More “XCOR Aerospace” »
Space travel will become a reality soon, so let’s have a look at what it would cost to, even for a brief moment, go above 100km (where space officially starts) and become an astronaut. Virgin Galactic‘s WhiteKnightTwo airplane will carry SpaceShipTwo with two pilots and six passengers to an altitude of 16 km (or 50.000 … Read More “The Cost Of Space Travel, As Virgin Galactic Ups Prices…” »