by Michael Belfiore | Mar 26, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
How much is a zero gravity ride with the world’s greatest physicist worth? $75,100, says the winner of an auction that just closed on eBay.All of the proceeds will go to Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation. eBay member lunalight4r5d will enjoy hotel...
by Michael Belfiore | Feb 25, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
If you’re at all interested in the current, real-world efforts to build private spaceships, you’ll be disappointed by this movie about an aerospace engineer/rancher building his own ride to space. Filmmakers Mark and Michael Polish didn’t do their...
by Michael Belfiore | Feb 9, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
Rocketeers Originally uploaded by mpbelfiore. I spoke too soon when I said the cover for my forthcoming commercial spaceflight book was finalized. Turns out a certain high-volume bookseller thought it lacked punch, so the designers went back to the drawing board and...
by Michael Belfiore | Jan 3, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
This just went up today, on the freshly-revamped site of spaceship startup Blue Origin.Blue Origin is run and financed by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, and it’s been maintaining media silence since its inception.These pictures and videos from a test flight...
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 18, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
Today I handed in the first draft of Rocketeers, my forthcoming book on commercial spaceflight. All 117,007 words of it, including endnotes. That’s 389 manuscript pages, for those of you who don’t get paid by the word. Or, probably about 320 pages in the...
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 12, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
Just got off the phone with David Gump, president of Transformational Space Corporation (t/Space), a finalist for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. Gump confirms that t/Space is still in operation despite losing out to SpaceX and...
