by Michael Belfiore | Apr 8, 2013 | Blog
There’s a quiet revolution taking place in the commercial space flight industry: vertical takeoff/vertical landing rockets. You know the ones. You’ve seen them in 1950s science fiction movies. Big smoking rocket rises on a pillar of flame. Comes back down...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 5, 2013 | Blog
One of the promises of the commercial space flight revolution now underway is affordable access to space by ordinary people. That’s coming a whole lot sooner than you might think, and it’s going to me more than just affordable. It’s going to be free....
by Michael Belfiore | Mar 27, 2013 | Blog
XCOR Aerospace has announced the culimination of a 12-year project to develop piston-driven pumps for delivering fuel and oxidizer to rocket engines. A recent test firing successfully demonstrated the delivelry of both kerosene and liquid oxygine to one of their...