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Now my beach trip looks lame
Fun, I guess Am I the only one vacationing on the ground this year? This guy is traveling to the space station on what he calls a “Poetic Social Mission.” He’s the Canadian billionaire who started...
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A Marriage Made in Microgravity
Zero Gravity Corporation (click to embiggen) In the March 2008 issue, we published “High Fashion,” which chronicled the state of the art in orbital couture, including “a dress that looked like a giant...
View ArticleSend up the clowns
Okay, that was one of the strangest sendoffs in launch history. Not only did space tourist and Cirque Du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté keep putting on his red clown nose, the whole crew periodically...
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Walk This Way
That's me on the right (All photos by Steve Boxall, Zero-G) 24,000 feet over the Atlantic, east of Long Island, aboard G-Force One, Boeing 727-200 (likely the only 727 spiffed up with winglets). 30...
View ArticleTake (Spaceship)Two
More than five years ago Burt Rutan made history with SpaceShipOne, the first civilian- built vehicle to reach space. That rocketplane hangs in the Milestones of Flight gallery in the Smithsonian’s...
View Article“Space Tourists” at Sundance
Christian Frei’s film “Space Tourists” makes its North American premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next week. Frei, whose documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey was nominated for an...
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Your Face in Space
With time running short for the space shuttle, NASA has come up with a way for the masses to journey with astronauts on the vehicle’s two remaining voyages. Granted, it’s still impossible to actually...
View ArticleFirst Flight for VSS Enterprise
Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spaceship, the VSS Enterprise, made its first piloted free flight and landing yesterday in Mojave, California. Pete Siebold was at the controls.
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The Return of Space Tourism
Charles Simonyi is Space Adventures' only repeat customer—so far. We probably shouldn’t call them space tourists, even in a headline. The seven people who have visited the International Space Station...
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Young Artists and the 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight
By Ismael Roman, third place, category 3 (14 to 17 year olds). Each year, the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) and the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) organize an art...
View ArticleVASIMR: Still Hot
Late in 2014, a radically different type of rocket propulsion is set to show up on the International Space station for a period of experimentation. The technology is called the Variable Specific...
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SpaceShipTwo: The Story So Far
Most “new space” watchers consider Virgin Galactic the frontrunner in the race (can something so slow be called a race?) to send the first tourists into suborbital space. In recent weeks Richard...
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Musk’s One-in-a-Million Proposition
Space X Founder Elon Musk, who’s profiled in our current issue, discusses (at a recent National Press Club event) the prospect of 8,000 people moving to Mars for half a million dollars each.
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Ohio’s Space Shuttle
When NASA retired its space shuttle fleet last year, the three flown orbiters — Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour — and the Enterprise atmospheric test vehicle all went to museums in big tourism markets:...
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