by Michael Belfiore | Sep 16, 2014 | Articles, Blog
NASA announced a pair of contracts worth a total of $6.8 billion to Boeing and SpaceX to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station in a press conference today. The mission for each company: build a ship capable of sending at least four astronauts at...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 23, 2014 | Blog
In the trade they call it a rapid unplanned disassembly, or a RUD. That’s an explosion, to us lay people. It happened in the sky over the SpaceX proving ground in McGregor, Texas, when a flight computer detected a problem in an unmanned reusable booster...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 1, 2014 | Articles, Blog
DARPA, the government agency that gave us the Internet and stealth aircraft, has come up with some pretty interesting program names over the years. The names are as unique as the program managers who run them, and reflect the personalities of these mavericks of...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 18, 2014 | Articles, Blog
Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk about commercial spaceflight on Minnesota Public Radio. Joining me was Will Pomerantz, VP of Special Projects at Virgin Galactic. Our host was Kerri Miller. While Pomerantz talked up the Virgin spaceflight experience, I...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 5, 2014 | Blog
For all you sci-fi-coming-true fans in my neck of the woods, I’ll be speaking in Kingston, NY this Wednesday about the latest stories I’m covering. The occasion is the weekly Rotary Club of Kingston luncheon at Christina’s Restaurant, 812 Ulster Ave,...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 4, 2014 | Blog
It’s shaping up to be the most ambitious and farthest-ranging documentary on the emerging commercial spaceflight industry so far. SpaceRace 2 (working title) is a production of DLI Productions, based in Québec. The crew has been at it since 2008, when they shot...
