The technology of things that fly
Boeing will invest $20 million in Virgin Galactic to “broaden commercial space access and transform global travel technologies” the companies announced on 8 October. Both companies have discussed the potential for super-fast commercial flight through hypersonic aircraft or flight through space. Leanne Caret, chief executive of Boeing’s space division, says in a statement that “together we will change how people
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President Donald Trump’s call on NASA to land American astronauts on the Moon by 2024 is the latest episode in a long-running saga of making grand promises about human spaceflight.
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WASHINGTON- NASA has yet to convince some high-profile space community members to back its plan to assemble a space station between Earth and the moon by 2026, and to return humans to the lunar surface by 2028.
Read moreNASA and its space station partners face a conundrum of timing after Thursday’s Soyuz rocket accident, which miraculously left the crew of a cosmonaut and an astronaut in shape to walk away and hug loved ones. Their capsule, which smacked into the Kazakhstan desert, was supposed to dock at the station to deliver crew members and serve as the orbiting
Read moreNASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the Trump administration’s goal of landing Americans on the surface of the moon and someday Mars will require companies and international partners, because “we want to do more than even our growing budget can handle.” Full story by Tom Risen online at Aerospace America.
Read moreNASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has sought to assure advocates of a human mission to Mars that NASA is “doing both the moon and Mars in tandem” rather than focusing exclusively on the Trump administration’s more immediate goal of sending astronauts back to the moon.Full story by Tom Risen on Humans to Mars Summit available at Aerospace America
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