by Michael Belfiore | Aug 18, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized
It’s a scoop! I nabbed it for Wired News, and it’s today’s lead story.Read all about it at Wired.com, or, after today, at http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,68528,00.html.In essence, NASA’s going to start hiring private spaceship companies...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 11, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized
Just got off the phone with Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures. Yesterday his company announced the first privately funded mission to the moon (see my last post). It’s a real mission that really will happen. Space Adventures has cut a deal with the Russian...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 11, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized
John Schwartz got the drop on me at the New York Times, but even he’s missing the big picture. For now.Check this out.Space Adventures announced yesterday that they’ve cut a deal with the Russian Space Agency to return people to the moon by 2010....
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 9, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized
Thank God, and no thanks to a series of stupid decisions based more on politics than science, shuttle Discovery touched down at Edwards Air Force Base just now. Now if only NASA doesn’t risk another crew in this broken-down space jalopy.It’s public...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 6, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized
Yesterday Popular Science shipped the October issue, the cover story for which will be my piece on t/Space (see post below for latest news on that company). I spent the day going back and forth with the my editor, fact checker and sources to fine-tune details and...
