by National Space Society | May 24, 2021 | Commercial Space, Space Development, Space Tourism
Flight is first spaceflight from Spaceport America, New Mexico By Bob Brodbeck Image: Cabin interior with passenger seats rotated back in space (courtesy of Virgin Galactic). After an extended pause Virgin Galactic (VG) successfully resumed suborbital flights to space...
by National Space Society | May 9, 2021 | Commercial Space, Space Development
By Dale Skran On May 9th at 2:42 AM a Falcon 9 roared skyward lofting another 60 Starlink satellites to orbit. Ho-hum! That’s the 11th Starlink launch on a Falcon 9 in 2021 so far, so what’s the big deal? SpaceX has been re-using F9 first stages for a long time. Take...
by National Space Society | May 6, 2021 | Commercial Space, NSS Press Releases
SpaceX’s Starship Breaks Another Record, Reaching all Milestones and Landing Safely Image: Starship SN15 after landing (SpaceX) On Wednesday May 5 at 6:24 pm Eastern Time, SpaceX’s Starship Serial Number 15 (SN15) lifted off from the company’s test facility in Boca...
by National Space Society | May 5, 2021 | Commercial Space, Space Development, Space Tourism
One seat is up for auction. By Bob Brodbeck Image courtesy Blue Origin Today, May 5th, on the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s Mercury 7 suborbital space flight, Blue Origin announced that astronaut flights aboard their New Shepard (NS) suborbital rocket and capsule...
by National Space Society | Apr 14, 2021 | Commercial Space, Space Development
By Bob Brodbeck Earlier today, Wednesday April 14, 2021, Blue Origin successfully completed the 15th flight of the New Shepard rocket and capsule system at its Launch Site One in West Texas, north of Van Horn. This test included Blue Origin employees as stand-in...
by National Space Society | Mar 4, 2021 | Commercial Space, Space Development
Opinion by Dale Skran Image: SN10 vaults skyward 03 03 2021, courtesy SpaceX A bit more than a year and a half ago [August 28, 2019, to be exact], I wrote a blog post that examined what criteria would force even the most conservative space planner to abandon...
by National Space Society | Mar 1, 2021 | Commercial Space, Education, Event, NASA
NASA and the Rise of Commercial Space: A Symposium to Examine the Meaning(s) and Context(s) of Commercial Space Wednesday – March 17, 2021 – Friday, March 19, 2021 Final Session: March 25, 2021 From activities in low-Earth orbit to the Artemis program, the...
by National Space Society | Jan 20, 2021 | Commercial Space
By Dale Skran, NSS CEO On January 20th SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The first stage safely returned to Earth, landing on the drone ship “Just Read the Instructions.” Just another day on the Cape for...
