by Michael Belfiore | Sep 13, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
You should be able to find the October issue of Popular Science on stands starting around now. I have a one-pager about Bigelow Aerospace’s Fly Your Stuff program on page 48 and a three-pager about the Lunar Lander Challenge beginning on page 38. Sorry, no links...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 1, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
…and the crowd yawns. “I doubt that in the coming months and years I will be commenting much on Orion or the other shiny, precious projects in Mr. Griffin’s Constellation,” says Clark S. Lindsey, one of my favorite bloggers. I’m...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 9, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
As regular readers of this blog know, I’m writing a book for Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins on commercial spaceflight. It’s called The Entreprenauts: Visionaries and Daredevils of the New Space Age, and it’s due on shelves next summer. That means I...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 13, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
…at least in digital form. Hit www.popsci.com, then click the “Digital Edition” link on the left side of the page to subscribe. For 10 bucks a year; it’s hard to go wrong.My Rocketplane feature isn’t the cover story, as I (mistakenly)...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 9, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
That’s the philosophy of John Carmack’s Armadillo Aerospace in Dallas, Texas, where last night I was treated to a test firing of the group’s newest ethanol-and-liquid-oxygen powered rocket engine.The photo above is from a test a couple of months ago,...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 22, 2006 | Blog, Uncategorized
Jeff Foust has some excellent commentary on yesterday’s second anniversary of SpaceShipOne’s first commercial spaceflight.Meanwhile, I’ve been learning about the world’s first homebuilt spaceship’s roots in model airplanes. Burt Rutan,...
