by Michael Belfiore | Oct 7, 2013 | Articles, Blog
The November issue of Air & Space Smithsonian has my feature story on XCOR Aerospace and its Lynx suborbital spaceship in the making. I’d been angling for a feature on XCOR, somewhere, for years. The company is one of the unsung success stories of the...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 30, 2013 | Articles, Blog
Yesterday was an amazing day in commercial spaceflight. First, in the early morning hours, a robotic Orbital Science Cygnus spacecraft rendezvoused and berthed with the International Space Station. This makes the second operational vehicle to deliver supplies to the...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog
For a very good overview of the way connected machines will both enhance and bring more risk into our lives, check out “Rise of the Machines,” an hour-long special airing on CNBC Wednesday, September 18th at 9PM ET/PT. I’ve been helping to cover this...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog
Last year I reviewed Peter Diamandis’ excellent book Abundance here on the blog. Yesterday I got a chance to plug it again on the website of The Economist, on the Look Ahead blog. One of the more eye-opening concepts in the book is this idea of Rising Billion....
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 13, 2013 | Articles, Blog
Elon Musk yesterday revealed the details of his concept for a super-speed ground transport between LA and San Francisco. The thing would take the form of an elevated “rail” line comprised of a partially evacuated tube through which passenger pods would be...
