by Michael Belfiore | Aug 14, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve just had word from Bigelow Aerospace, now at work on the first commercial space station in Las Vegas, that the company will leapfrog its next planned test module and skip right to its first habitable space station.That’s exciting news for anyone...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 9, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve been here in Anaheim, California for the every-18-month DARPA Technology Symposium put on by the Pentagon’s mad scientist department. There’s Chuck Hildreth modeling a DARPA-funded prosthetic arm built by DEKA Research, the company run by Segway...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 9, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
DARPA director Tony Tether has just released the list of 36 teams that made it into the semi-finals for the Urban Challenge for autonomous vehicles capable navigating through city streets with other moving traffic. List...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 7, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve just finalized the deal on my next book project for Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins. The new book, to be completed in about a year, will focus on the blue sky technologies advanced by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 2, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
I have the front page of Wired.com today, with an article on the effect of last week’s accident at Scaled Composites on the NewSpace industry.Check out the comments area for a statement from future space passenger Reda Anderson.There’s also an excerpt from...
