29 July 2012
Added "Space Debris and Its Mitigation" to the archive.
16 July 2012
Space Future has been on something of a hiatus of late. With the concept of Space Tourism steadily increasing in acceptance, and the advances of commercial space, much of our purpose could be said to be achieved. But this industry is still nascent, and there's much to do. So...watch this space.
9 December 2010
Updated "What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace" to the 2009 revision.
7 December 2008
"What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace" is now the top entry on Space Future's Key Documents list.
30 November 2008
Added Lynx to the Vehicle Designs page.
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Announcements / Other (Good)
14 November 1999 by Peter Wainwright
Company Anticipates Receiving $5 Million of the $12 Million Contract Awarded to UC Berkeley by NASA
PRESS RELEASE
/ Tourism (Good)
12 November 1999 by Patrick Collins
Giant of Rocketry Explains the Necessity to Focus on Passenger-Carrying
In an article entitled "The Engineering of Dreams: The Future of Commercial Space" published in the National Space Society's magazine " Ad Astra" (September/October issue), Maxwell Hunter, one of the greats of rocket engineering, makes the case conclusively for launch vehicle development to focus on carrying passengers:
News / Tourism (Good)
9 November 1999 by Patrick Collins
Offers sweep-stake for sub-orbital space flights
Dole Food Products Inc, the world's largest fresh fruit company, is offering tickets for a sub-orbital space flight to winners of a sweep-stake it is organising.
Online / Vehicles (Good)
24 October 1999 by Peter Wainwright
A general article about the various commercial launch companies
An online article from the Orlando Sentinel article discusses the ups and downs of the commercial launch business at
Events / General (Good)
13 November 1999 by
ISS Commercialization Takes Stage in Seattle
The Space Enterprise Symposium will take place on Saturday, November 13 at Seattle's Museum of Flight. Five speakers will discuss commercialization of the International Space Station at the day-long event, which is sponsored by the Space Frontier Foundation, the Northwest Venture Group, the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest, the Museum of Flight, and ProSpace America.
Announcements / Vehicles (None)
19 October 1999 by Peter Wainwright
Vehicle Flies 4,300 feet at over 50 mph
PRESS RELEASE:
Media / Tourism (Good)
18 October 1999 by
Customers Lining Up to Tour Space But a ticket may cost almost $100,000
This article appeared in the business and finance section, not the human interest section. Next milestone is for it to appear in the travel section, where future space tourists will lust for the ultimate "get away from it all" vacation.
Reports / Tourism (Good)
18 October 1999 by Patrick Collins
Session Shows Up Folly of Current Space Leadership
Eight excellent papers concerning various aspects of space tourism were presented to an audience of about 100 people in the session "Space Tourism and other Novel Space Applications" held on October 7th at the 50th IAF Congress in Amsterdam. (There were no other topics.)
News / Vehicles (Ugly)
10 October 1999 by
Judge Blocks U.S. Virgin Islands Land Transfer to Rocket Company
Beal Aerospace's recent problems are covered in an Associated Press article, available at href=http://www.express-news.net/auth/ennews/ap/texas/d0613.html.
Media / General (None)
5 October 1999 by Sam Coniglio
A Poll on Public Space Travel is being conducted this week
National Public Radio's Marketplace is interviewing Lou Dobbs, former CNN Financial News anchor, and now producer of Space.com on Wednesday, October 6 at 6:30 pm PST (check your local radio listings). Space.com is a new web site devoted to all types of space-related news.
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