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Popular Mechanics
August 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
New Area 51: Mojave's Desert Outpost Holds Space Flight's Future With mysterious test flights, secret prototypes and next-gen spacecraft, this remote California airfield has become the hotbed of rebel aerospace.   |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2007
Ronald Grover |
Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets A group of space entrepreneurs is trying to get the Rocket Racing League off the launchpad. |
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? |
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. |
National Defense
July 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Experimental Rockets Boost Expectations of Lower Costs The Air Force is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA to develop simpler and less expensive launch vehicles. |
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. |
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. |
Inc.
January 2005
David H. Freedman |
Entrepreneur of the Year In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space. His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine -- and turn a big profit. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009 |
Behind the Scenes With the World's Most Ambitious Rocket Makers In late 2001, Tom Mueller was sacrificing his nights and weekends to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine in his garage. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Facing Competition, SpaceShipTwo Gets Set: Behind the Scenes SpaceShipTwo, the first spacecraft expressly designed for tourists, may begin test flights in 2009. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2003
Paul Eisenstein |
Biggest Engine Ever Built It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and, having served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned moon mission, probably qualifies as the most famous rocket as well. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2006
Jeff Wise |
Crash Test The Vertical Dragster, built by Armadillo Aerospace for the X Prize Cup, will lift off with 3000 pounds of thrust. In the pursuit of private spaceflight, a group of texas rocket enthusiasts aren't afraid to blow up a few engines. |
Popular Mechanics
December 28, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics. |
National Defense
April 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Desert Airport Becomes Home to New Breed of Space Entrepreneurs While there has been much consternation about the erosion of the space-industrial base in the United States, the facility shows that the field still attracts entrepreneurs who are enthralled by the glamour and challenge of space travel. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006
Hutchinson et al. |
Tech Watch All eyes on Mars... Making gas from cows... Distinguishing between an asteroid and planet... Rearview helmet... Fighting friendly fire... Rocket-powered planes... |
Popular Mechanics
March 26, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
California Startup XCOR Joins Space Tourism Race (With Video) Rocket engine manufacturer XCOR Aerospace offered a first look at its Lynx spacecraft, a uniquely designed two-seat plane that will be able to make several trips to space per day. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
James Oberg |
Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off |
The Motley Fool
October 5, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Go, Rocket Racer, Go! The Rocket Racing League (RRL) will re-create NASCAR, Formula One, and the America's Cup in the skies. Investors should get a thrill from this prospect. Dreams have helped to create billions in stock market value for generations. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
David Schneider |
Virgin Galactic Space Planes Should Launch This Year $200,000 buys you a seat and the end result should be something science-fiction writers have long dreamed of: regularly scheduled passenger flights into space. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Otis Port |
Space Travel: Bringing Costs Down To Earth NASA should give startups room to maneuver |
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
January 31, 2008
Erik Sofge |
The Inside Story of When Jet Packs Really Are Coming News of a cheaper, lighter rocket belt gets the sci-fi geek in all of us excited. But serious technical issues, delays and lawsuits stand between jet-propelled hype and practical liftoff. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Sandra Upson |
Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2011
James Oberg |
The Scientist as Space Tourist Private rockets like SpaceShipTwo will offer space-based science on the cheap. |
Wired
August 21, 2007
Erin Biba |
We Have Ignition! NASA Tests a New Rocket Engine in the Mojave Desert. NASA is firing up the 5M15, which runs on compressed liquid methane. The odorless substance has multiple advantages over conventional rocket propellants. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Will Test Reusable Spacecraft Later This Year The company's New Shepard reusable capsule is designed to eventually carry tourists and science experiments to the edge of 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. |
Popular Mechanics
September 11, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
How to Make a (More) Environmentally Friendly Rocket Fuel Every NASA space shuttle launch leaves a huge cloud of exhaust in its wake, and some nasty chemicals lurk in the exhaust. |
Wired
October 20, 2008
Preston Lerner |
Pyro Geek Hobbyists Experiment With Homebrew Rockets The Association of Rocket Mavericks is a group of amateur rocketeers that are the top guns of model rocketry and may be the future innovators of the aerospace industry. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Meet The New Zealand Company That's 3-D Printing Rocket Engines... And They Work An upstart New Zealand rocket company says it has found a way to drastically cut the cost of satellite launches: 3-D printing rocket components. |
Outside
October 2003
Bryant Urstadt |
Master Blaster It's every boy's dream: launching a do-it-yourself rocket that could not only put an eye out but could drill a hole through King Kong's forehead -- and still make it to outer space. Meet Ky Michaelson, the sultan of thrust. |
Popular Mechanics
October 27, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Critics and Proponents Wait Out NASA's Ares 1-X Rocket Delay Severe winds and bad weather delayed NASA's first Ares 1-X rocket test today. The launch, which will culminate in a 6-minute flight to test the new hardware, will pick up again tomorrow at 8 am. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Just Came A Step Closer To Carrying Humans To Space Between Boeing, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Xcor, and Blue Origin, the private space race is fully underway. |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2008
Thomas D. Jones |
5 Years Later, 5 Hard Lessons From the Columbia Shuttle Disaster: Resident Astronaut As NASA readies Atlantis for a Feb. 7 launch to the International Space Station, it observes a week packed with painful memories of three spaceflight tragedies: Apollo 1, Challenger and the fifth anniversary of the loss of Columbia. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2004
Seth Jayson |
SpaceDev Burns Rubber This is hardly a risk-free investment, but if you're the kind of person who wants to have a share of Harley-Davidson or Disney because you're a fan, here's your chance to own a bit of the next space race. |
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. |
