by Michael Belfiore | Feb 8, 2011 | Articles
Review of Jet Age by Sam Howe Verhovek. By Michael Belfiore. New York Times, February 6, 2011. “Jet Age” is ostensibly about the race between two companies and nations to commercialize a military technology and define a new era of air travel. There’s Boeing with its...
by Michael Belfiore | Feb 6, 2011 | Blog
Prizes have enormous potential to foster radical solutions to tough problems. It’s because of a prize that Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927. It was to win a prize that Scaled Composites launched the first commercial manned spaceship in 2004....
by Michael Belfiore | Feb 5, 2011 | Blog
Last April, President Obama set NASA on a course that will have it chartering commercial flights to the International Space Station after the Space Shuttle retires this year, freeing up R&D money for exploration beyond low Earth orbit. It’s a big change for...
by Michael Belfiore | Jan 26, 2011 | Blog
It’s called the State of the Union Address, but the speech President Obama delivered last night might as well have been called the “State of the Future” address. “The future is ours to win,” he said. “We are the nation that put cars...
by Michael Belfiore | Jan 21, 2011 | Blog
The full impact of the successful launch of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule last month in an unmanned orbital test flight has yet to be fully felt. But what is clear is that America’s next orbital spaceship will be a space capsule, rather than a winged design....
