You can listen to Foundation Advocate Dr. David Livingston's radio show
The Space Show
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| Reflections from Earth Orbit by Captain Winston Scott – Capt USN (Ret) Scott has written a warm and heartfelt story of his amazing life as an astronaut. Click above to order from Amazon.com. |
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| NewSpace Get-Together |
SFC 14: The Next Space Age is the place to be in October if you want to take the pulse of this new and exciting revolution.
Space Frontier Conference 14
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| All Fired Up |
XCOR announced it successfully completed firing tests on a small methane and oxygen fueled engine. Since cows have so much methane we wonder if they might get enough thrust to, well, jump over the Moon.
XCOR Press Release
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| SpaceShipThree to follow SpaceShipTwo |
Orbital vehicle SpaceShipThree (SS3) will be developed by space tourism company Virgin Galactic and Mojave-based SpaceShipTwo (SS2) developer Scaled Composites if the planned SS2 suborbital service is successful, says Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn.
FlightInternational.com
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| "One small step for ITAR, one big leap for Virgin Galactic" |
Will Whitehorn's above quote came when the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls cleared the way for exchanges of technical information between Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic.
Space.com.
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| FindMe aCrater.com |
Three students met with experts from NASA and business leaders at our July 2005 Return to the Moon conference. Brandon Corder, Jennifer Maggard & Megan Seals have begun networking to build LunarGIS.com, a lunar map database with public access.
zwire.com.
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NASA Launches
Startups for Ships |
Hardware tests by t/Space are "grabbing attention at NASA, where millions are normally expended just to create project proposals dressed up with charts in pretty binders."
Read about it on Wired.com.
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Dreams Put Orion
on Track for the Stars |
Tim Pickens' passion for rockets – and a little help from entrepreneur Burt Rutan – helped him launch Orion Propulsion a little more than a year ago. "A hard-core enthusiast can do this stuff, if you have enough passion."
Huntsville Times
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| Trip to ISS Helps SellJets |
Here's a new twist on "buy 3 get one free." It seems that as part of a deal for 18 fighter jets Malaysia gets to buy a seat to the ISS for one of its citizens.
New Straits Times
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| Shooting the Moon |
Elon Musk bets his fortune developing a rocket to make outer space as accessible as cyberspace. "Getting to the Moon in 10 years is definitely doable."
Click here for the Discover cover story. Full version at SpaceX.com.
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| Plan to OMB on 9/12? |
If true, NASA's 60-day plan will be complete in only a bit over four months. Assuming a direct relationship between the study's difficulty and the plan, we can dramatically lower the adjustment needed for all dates & $ to 2x.
NASAWatch.com
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Jim Benson on
Making Space Pay |
"…if we want to go to space to stay, space has to pay. That's the bottom line. We've got to find ways of making space happen for all of humanity, other than through government programs…"
Read about it on MSNBC.com
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Massive Microsoft
Conspiracy Revealed |
"Did PowerPoint make the space shuttle crash? Could it doom another mission? Preposterous as this may sound," this is the lead of a Washington Post story.
Read PowerPoint: Killer App?
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60 NewSpace Companies and Organizations
Note: this is an informal list, meaning the only requirement to be here is an active website. If you see an error, or wish to add a company or organization, please inform us by using our Comments page. Ultimately, the power of the marketplace will determine who remains listed. |
| Past Issues of NewSpace News |
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NewSpace News #2 August 1, 2005 – Items include Space Frontier Conference 14, a $100 million Lunar round trip offering, Ron Howard's Xquest, Honeymooners Sign Up for Virgin Space Quickie, The Institute for Space Law & Policy, and more. |
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NewSpace News #1 July 1, 2005 – The Space Frontier Foundation is proud to announce the first issue of its new monthly electronic newsletter. NewSpace News briefly summaries a dozen or so of the more relevant NewSpace stories of the past month and provides links to the original stories. So, if you want to know why Florida announced a weight loss program for 15 teachers, or what's with those guys sticking a rocket up a Lear Jet's tail, or why t/Space is throwing dummies out of airplanes, you should click the link above. |
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NewSpace News #0 June 1, 2005 – The prototype of NewSpace News, the Space Frontier Foundation's new monthly electronic newsletter. NewSpace News briefly summaries a dozen or so of the more relevant NewSpace stories of the past month and provides links to the original stories. Stories in the prototype include news about PlanetSpace, SpaceX's Falcon 1, a possible Boeing/Lockheed monopoly, Teachers in NewSpace, and Aera Corp, a new and mysterious NewSpace company. |
| The Space Frontier Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the Space Frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible. Our goals include protecting the Earth's fragile biosphere and creating a freer and more prosperous life for each generation by using the unlimited energy and material resources of space. Our purpose is to unleash the power of free enterprise and lead a united humanity permanently into the Solar System. |
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The High Frontier is Gerard K. O'Neill's masterpiece. This new 3rd Edition Includes an introduction by Freeman Dyson.
Click above to order The High Frontier from Amazon.com . |
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