by National Space Society | Dec 31, 2021 | Commercial Space, Space Tourism
© by Dale Skran, NSS Chief Operating Officer Image: Inspiration4 crew, courtesy Inspiration4 I can’t believe I am finally writing this, but 2021 was the year that space tourism “rebooted” big time. The first epoch of space tourism started on April 28, 2001, with the...
by National Space Society | Jul 12, 2021 | Commercial Space, Space Tourism
This fourth test spaceflight was the first fully crewed By Bob Brodbeck Realizing a boyhood dream, Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, rocketed to space yesterday morning, Sunday July 11, on board the company’s spaceplane VSS (Virgin SpaceShip) Unity....
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 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 | Jan 14, 2021 | Commercial Space, Space Development, Space Tourism
By Bob Brodbeck Activities in the suborbital space tourism arena indicate that it is highly likely this business will finally become operational, flying paying passengers to space, this year. Earlier today at their west Texas facility, Blue Origin successfully...
by National Space Society | Dec 11, 2019 | Commercial Spaceflight, Space Development, Space Tourism
By Bob Brodbeck After a one-day delay due to high winds and then fog, Blue Origin this morning Wednesday, December 11th, made its last test flight of 2019 with the New Shepard suborbital rocket system. The twelfth New Shepard system flight (NS-12) launched at 11:43 am...
by National Space Society | Feb 22, 2019 | Commercial Space, Space Tourism
Image: VSS Unity in space with wings feathered, February 22, 2019. Image courtesy of Virgin Galactic. By Bob Brodbeck This morning Friday February 22nd Virgin Galactic’s piloted space plane VSS Unity (a.k.a. SpaceShipTwo) reached the black skies of space for the...
by National Space Society | Dec 18, 2018 | Commercial Spaceflight, NSS Press Releases, Space Tourism
National Space Society congratulates Virgin Galactic on achieving a historic milestone in space tourism Virgin Galactic achieved a historic milestone in space development as the start up of space tourism takes another step forward. Thursday morning, December 13th, the...
