by Michael Belfiore | Dec 18, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
Today I handed in the first draft of Rocketeers, my forthcoming book on commercial spaceflight. All 117,007 words of it, including endnotes. That’s 389 manuscript pages, for those of you who don’t get paid by the word. Or, probably about 320 pages in the...
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 12, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
Just got off the phone with David Gump, president of Transformational Space Corporation (t/Space), a finalist for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. Gump confirms that t/Space is still in operation despite losing out to SpaceX and...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 13, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ll be on Dr. David (“Dr. Space”) Livingston’s “The Space Show” to talk about my forthcoming commercial spaceflight book tomorrow night!If you’re in the Seattle area, you can tune in to KKNW at 1150 AM at 7 p.m. Pacific time,...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 5, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
I think it’s a clean, elegant design that tells the story. How do you show some exciting rocket hardware on a book jacket without favoring any one project or builder? That’s how. The designers had a tough assignment and I think they pretty much aced it....
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 28, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’m at the Javits Center in New York City for Wired magazine’s NextFest 2006, where the Virgin Group’s chief Richard Branson (center), Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn (left), and V.P. of astronaut relations Steve Attenborough this morning...
