by Michael Belfiore | Jul 24, 2013 | Blog
The Space Frontier Foundation has decided to give me its award for outstanding journalist in the commercial spaceflight field. From the website of the SFF’s annual conference, where I’ll be given the award at a gala this Saturday: Michael Belfiore –...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 2, 2013 | Blog
Planetary Resources, the first asteroid mining company, has just closed a Kickstarter campaign based around the launch of its first asteroid-hunting space telescope. Total amount raised: $1,505,366 from 17,614 people. It’s one of the top-grossing Kickstarter...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 17, 2013 | Blog
Six hundred people have now signed up for a ride on the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo rocketplane. Initial cost was $200,000, but Virgin Galactic, billing itself as the world’s first spaceline, has bumped the price to $250,000. That represents at least $120...
