by Michael Belfiore | Aug 9, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
As regular readers of this blog know, I’m writing a book for Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins on commercial spaceflight. It’s called The Entreprenauts: Visionaries and Daredevils of the New Space Age, and it’s due on shelves next summer. That means I...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 13, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
…at least in digital form. Hit www.popsci.com, then click the “Digital Edition” link on the left side of the page to subscribe. For 10 bucks a year; it’s hard to go wrong.My Rocketplane feature isn’t the cover story, as I (mistakenly)...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 9, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
That’s the philosophy of John Carmack’s Armadillo Aerospace in Dallas, Texas, where last night I was treated to a test firing of the group’s newest ethanol-and-liquid-oxygen powered rocket engine.The photo above is from a test a couple of months ago,...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 22, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
Jeff Foust has some excellent commentary on yesterday’s second anniversary of SpaceShipOne’s first commercial spaceflight.Meanwhile, I’ve been learning about the world’s first homebuilt spaceship’s roots in model airplanes. Burt Rutan,...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 7, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
Receiving money from NASA’s new Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program will disqualify a company from winning Robert Bigelow’s America’s Space Prize, Bigelow confirmed for me yesterday.Under COTS, NASA has allocated $500 million to...
