by Michael Belfiore | Aug 9, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve been here in Anaheim, California for the every-18-month DARPA Technology Symposium put on by the Pentagon’s mad scientist department. There’s Chuck Hildreth modeling a DARPA-funded prosthetic arm built by DEKA Research, the company run by Segway...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 9, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
DARPA director Tony Tether has just released the list of 36 teams that made it into the semi-finals for the Urban Challenge for autonomous vehicles capable navigating through city streets with other moving traffic. List...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 7, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve just finalized the deal on my next book project for Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins. The new book, to be completed in about a year, will focus on the blue sky technologies advanced by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 2, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
I have the front page of Wired.com today, with an article on the effect of last week’s accident at Scaled Composites on the NewSpace industry.Check out the comments area for a statement from future space passenger Reda Anderson.There’s also an excerpt from...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 27, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
An explosion during a test of rocket engine compenents by SpaceShipTwo builder Scaled Composites claimed the lives of three Scaled employees and seriously injured three others yesterday, according to various reports.This is sure to set back the SpaceShipTwo program,...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 24, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
Back from Washington, where I launched my book Rocketeers at the National Air & Space Museum and the NewSpace 2007 conference. There’s me signing books at the museum’s Udvar-Hazy center at Dulles Airport. Larry Lowe, writer for Air & Space...
