| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Space Adventures Ready for Blast-Off The privately held space tourism outfit buys its own rocketry technology. Are we witnessing the birth of the first space lines?   |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2007
James Oberg |
Putting up the Ritz What happens when a real estate tycoon who's made a pile of money starts thinking really big? In the case of Robert Bigelow, he starts working out a way to build hotels in outer space. And he just might be smart enough, rich enough, and driven enough to pull it off. |
Adventure
November 2005
Bonnie Tsui |
Adventure Travel 2006: The Best Trips: Space Space Adventures and Virgin Galactic are two companies likely to be selling rides into space by 2008. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
David Noland |
The 'New Space' Race: Handicapping the Billionaire Rocketeers Fueled by interest in space tourism, as well as NASA contracts to replace the shuttle in 2010, the private "New Space" industry is finally looking like the real thing. |
Popular Mechanics
June 12, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Google Exec's ISS Trip Sends Yet Another Rich Geek to Space Two more big names are now set to join the pantheon of private citizens turned space tourists (if they'll even let you call them that anymore). And, you guessed it, they're both rich nerds -- again. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Vince Beiser |
Hotel Biz Zillionaire's Next Venture? Inflatable Space Pods. The super-rich owner of the Budget Suites hotel chain, Robert T. Bigelow, has plans to build his own space station. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
James Oberg |
Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off |
Popular Mechanics
February 6, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
Win a Private Space Flight for $20--Pending Success of Commercial Spaceflight Sir Richard Branson hopes to offer tickets to ride in orbit for around $200,000. But new contests are promising flights for as little as $20. |
Salon.com
June 7, 2001
Amy Standen |
My own private space station Robert Bigelow has his funding priorities straight: Orbiting cruise ships and paranormal research... |
Popular Mechanics
July 29, 2008
Rand Simberg |
The Uncertain Future of the International Space Station: Analysis The International Space Station isn't scheduled to be completed for two more years, but a growing chorus of engineers and executives is already brainstorming about what to do with the ISS after its life span ends in 2015. |
Popular Mechanics
December 9, 2009
Rand Simberg |
Virgin Galactic's Unveil Is Tip of the Iceberg for Private Spaceflight The ability to fly experimenters and their experiments into suborbit, regularly and cheaply, could be a game changer in terms of research progress. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Michael Belfiore |
7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle NASA's Orion won't be ready until at least 2015, but the current space shuttle is due to retire next year. Meet the seven international spacecraft from the world's space fleet that could inherit the job of ferrying supplies into space. |
InternetNews
October 27, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Silicon Valley Goes Into Orbit Got a few extra million just burning a hole in your pocket? A number of Silicon Valley pioneers are spending their spare change for a ticket into space. |
Wired
January 2005
Spencer Reiss |
Rocket Man Richard Branson conquered the world with the Virgin brand. Now, through a deal being negotiated with SpaceShipOne's owners, he wants to fly you to space with Virgin Galactic, the world's first off-the-planet private airline. |
Salon.com
April 28, 2001
Eric F. Lipton |
Hey, NASA, quit hoggin' space! It's time to share the universe. Dennis Tito ranks with John Glenn. He's a pioneer, leading the way in bringing space down to earth... |
The Motley Fool
January 10, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Stocks' Final Frontier As we reach for the stars, are there opportunities for investors in the new space race? |
Popular Mechanics
June 2, 2008
Glenn Reynolds |
VC Cash in Tow, Space Tourist Biz Moves Beyond Early Adopters An analysis of the influx of money into suborbital flight and what that could mean for your vacation to the moon. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Virgin Starts (70) Mile-High Club Airline entrepreneur Richard Branson aims to take his company to the final frontier. Virgin Galactic will allow tourists to enjoy 4 minutes of weightlessness in space. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2011
James Oberg |
The Scientist as Space Tourist Private rockets like SpaceShipTwo will offer space-based science on the cheap. |
Wired
December 2004 |
After the X Prize Manned space travel's best hope is the private sector, not NASA. In the open market, entrepreneurs and space hobbyists will do in a decade what NASA couldn't do in 46 years: provide safe, reliable trips to the heavens for the cost of a Caribbean cruise. |
Popular Mechanics
July 29, 2008
Barbara S. Peterson |
What Virgin's WhiteKnightTwo Really Means to the Future of Space Even with prototypes now just about ready to fly, how relevant is this self-styled New Space Race? |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004
Otis Port |
Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets The race for space is heating up as private outfits head for the launchpad. The business community is now starting to look hard at suborbital tourism to make sure they don't miss an opportunity. |
Popular Mechanics
February 26, 2010
Rand Simberg |
Suborbital Safety: Will Commercial Spaceflight Ramp Up the Risk? Ever since the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, almost a quarter of a century ago, the watchword above all others at NASA has been "safety." Unfortunately, watchwords don't necessarily create actual safety, as we learned a little over seven years ago, with the loss of her sister ship Columbia. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
Dream Job Alert! NASA Puts Out Call For New Astronauts NASA today put out a call for new astronauts, including those who might support a future manned mission to Mars. |
InsideFlyer
April 2008 |
60 Seconds with World's First Space Tourist Redeeming mileage for space travel. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Future of the Space Business: How Private Rocketeers Got Real To achieve liftoff at this watershed moment when they could begin to usurp NASA's stranglehold on space, billionaires rely on the propulsive power of profit in an industry based on competition and smarts. |
National Defense
April 2011
Stew Magnuson |
It's Not All Bad News When It Comes to the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base The health and welfare of the companies that produce spacecraft, payloads, rockets and ground stations for everyone from NASA to intelligence agencies has been the source of much hand-wringing during the past few years. |
Outside
October 2004
Christine Cyr |
Gravity Games The newest in-flight entertainment: weightlessness. Options range from simulated weightessness on a Boeing 727 to a week on the International Space Station. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Virgin Takes Two Billionaire Sir Richard Branson sets his sights on the stars as work begins on SpaceShipTwo. |
Fast Company
January 9, 2012
Emma Haak |
Private Spacecrafts Are Your Transportation, Your Scientists, And Your Real Estate Brokers In the absence of NASA's Space Shuttle Program, private companies are left to fill the black hole of space exploration. Now, 50 years after John Glenn orbited the Earth, some very different kinds of explorers are leading the way. |
Outside
December 2006
Michael Behar |
The Zero-G Spot Michael Behar has a simple fantasy: to be the first man on the planet to join the 100-mile-high club. But as he discovers in his hot pursuit of the big bang, he's hardly alone. In fact, cosmic copulation has become the hottest craze since the Kama Sutra. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Blue Origin Lifts Off Bezos' prototype spacecraft nicknamed Goddard climbed to 285 feet before descending back to Earth. That's an important step forward on a long path toward the heavens. History teaches that billion-dollar innovations are created slowly. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2011
Brian Stoffel |
Space Travel, Anyone? This could be the future of the aerospace industry. |
Popular Mechanics
November 20, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
For 10th Anniversary, 10 Headaches and Near-Mishaps on the International Space Station It's not the fault of any single mishap, but today is the space station's 10th birthday and it's still not fully assembled. |
Reason
April 2003
Tim Cavanaugh |
Space Balls: NASA fights the future The confidence of recent public assertions that US support for space travel in the wake of the Columbia explosion is encouraging. The underlying assumption, that space travel and NASA are equivalent, is not. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
The Amazing Orbiting Garriotts In 1973, Owen Garriott made electrical engineering history as the first EE astronaut to travel into space, spending 60 days aboard Skylab, the U.S. -- run space station. |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2010
Michael Belfiore |
Human Space Flight Needn't Rely on NASA: Guest Analysis Is Obama's just-released NASA budget the "death march for the future of U.S. human space flight," as Senator Richard Shelby proclaims on his website today? Or is it in fact a new beginning for the space agency? |
Popular Mechanics
March 11, 2009
Tom Jones |
An Astronaut's Letter to President Obama: Six Space Policy Musts Looming decisions facing the president will make or break America's status as the world leader in space. Here is some advice for Obama on what he needs to do to keep NASA on the right trajectory. |
BusinessWeek
October 28, 2010
Paul M. Barrett |
NASA: Lost in Space After 30 years, the Shuttle program will end. How do you outsource the astronaut business? |
Wired
July 2003
Carl Hoffman |
The Right Stuff Forget cyberspace. Geeks are about to conquer outer space. And the $10 million X Prize is just the beginning. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Jennifer Bogo |
X Prize CEO Thinks Obama's 2010 NASA Budget Good for Space The new approach NASA has taken has laid the foundation for the Google, Cisco and Apple computers of space to be born. And, ultimately, lays the foundation for the rest of us to have a chance to get to go to space. |
Salon.com
April 26, 2001
Chris Colin |
Failing, falling and burning to bits On its red-hot deathbed, the Mir space station helped us root for misery, a good story and fiery debris... |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2010
Tim Beyers |
This Rule Breaker Is Otherworldly Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is one of five companies that will share $50 million in stimulus funds designed to create commercial space vehicles that NASA will use to ferry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit. |
Entrepreneur
April 2005
Mark Henricks |
Space Cowboys High-profile entrepreneurs pursue the final frontier. |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Cost in Space NASA is encouraging U.S. companies to create vessels capable of transporting cargo on the 'final frontier.' |
Popular Mechanics
November 15, 2007
Thomas D. Jones |
High-Wire DIY Can Save the Space Station: Resident Astronaut The space station is giving us a graduate-level course in how people and machines can survive in space for the long term. |
InternetNews
October 13, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Discount Space Flights up For Grabs An e-commerce site dedicated to finding online savings is giving would-be astronauts a break on upcoming commercial space flights. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2009
Adrian Rush |
One Small Step Closer to Civilian Spaceflight Virgin Galactic promises a "theatrical unveil" as the world's first commercial passenger aircraft designed for space travel gets set for its unveiling in the Mojave Desert. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Tom Jones |
Launching NASA on a Path to Nowhere: Analysis The president released his FY 2011 budget Monday, and his policy for NASA's human spaceflight program sets the nation on a course to second-class status in space. |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Otis Port |
Private Space Travel: We May Have Liftoff If all goes well on June 21, the world's first private space plane will have shot 62 miles up into space before gliding back to land at the Mojave airport north of Los Angeles, launching a new revolution in space tourism. |
