by Michael Belfiore | Oct 4, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
Today marks two important anniversaries in the history of space travel. Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched a beeping basketball sized satellite called Sputnik, and with it the space age. Sputnik was the first artificial satellite, and it lit a fire under...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 30, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
There’s a transcript and a nice write-up of an interview I gave Bloomberg Radio recently at bloomberg.com. I talked with Robin Schatz about the viability of commercial spaceflight as a business and a bit about Bigelow Aerospace and other space ventures....
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 19, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
The October issue of Popular Science is out, with my cover story on EADS Astrium’s new tourist spaceship design.The ship, the size of a business jet, with twin jet engines for takeoffs and landings, and a single rocket engine for the boost to space, bears more...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 18, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
For those of you who missed my talk about my book Rocketeers on C-SPAN’s Book TV last weekend, you’ll have another chance to catch it on Saturday, August 25 at 10:45 a.m. Eastern Time. You can also watch it online right now at www.booktv.org.Coming up,...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 15, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
And now a word from our (former) sponsor….Regular readers of this blog may have noticed the appearance of ads served by Google to the right of this post late last year, and then their disappearance a couple of weeks ago.I ran those ads through the Google Adsense...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 14, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve just had word from Bigelow Aerospace, now at work on the first commercial space station in Las Vegas, that the company will leapfrog its next planned test module and skip right to its first habitable space station.That’s exciting news for anyone...
