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...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 4, 2013 | Blog
Elon musk, head of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has been talking about a mysterious new mode of transportation he’d like to see that he calls the Hyperloop. He has referred to it as a “cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table.”...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 3, 2013 | Blog
I was in Toronto last week for the GE Look Ahead Executing Innovation summit hosted by The Economist. This was a closed meeting of mostly Canadian business leaders sharing ideas across different industries, including healthcare, energy, and information technology. I...
by Michael Belfiore | May 23, 2013 | Blog
One of the major benefits of space travel is the new perspective it brings, both to the people who experience it, and to those who experience it vicariously through them. I believe that this perspective shift is just as important as any scientific knowledge or new...
by Michael Belfiore | May 3, 2013 | Blog
The fourth time’s a charm in this case. I’ve just received word that on Wednesday the fourth and final flight in the X-51A program achieved its objective of running a scramjet engine in flight for more five minutes. This is the first time in history that...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 30, 2013 | Blog
Photo: Copyright (c) 2013 MarsScientific.com via Virgin GalacticYesterday in Mojave, the Scaled Composites-built suborbital rocket plane SpaceShipTwo lit its rocket engine for the first time and cracked the sound barrier. Pilot Mark Stucky and copilot Mike Alsbury...
