by Michael Belfiore | Feb 1, 2013 | Articles, Blog
Like a lot of revolutionary ideas, it seems crazy at first glance: a space habitat that rides to orbit in a compressed state, and then inflates to full size when it gets there. But NASA worked seriously on the idea, pegging it for a future Mars mission...
by Michael Belfiore | Jan 24, 2013 | Blog
When I heard that David Gump had left top Google Lunar X PRIZE contender Astrobotic, I was pretty sure he would pop up somewhere equally interesting. I wasn’t disappointed to learn that he had become the CEO of Deep Space Industries, or DSI. DSI is the second...
by Michael Belfiore | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
Sure, it’s a marketing gimmick, but it’s also an exciting new endorsement for XCOR Aerospace and its Lynx suborbital spaceplane. Multinational personal care products company Unilever has bought 22 tickets (retail value about $2.1 million) for a contest...
