The Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported Monday that Roskosmos has signed a contract for the next orbital space tourist to visit the ISS: former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi. The Hungarian born Simonyi joined Microsoft in 1981 and oversaw development of some of the software giant’s most famous applications, Word and Excel. He left Microsoft […]
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Speaking of Rocketplane, I have an article about the company’s first microgravity research customer, a Japanese organization called HASTIC (Hokkaido Aerospace Science and Technology Incubation Center), in this week’s issue of The Space Review. This got a little attention back in February when HASTIC officials were honored by the Oklahoma legislature, but after talking with […] By coincidence, the same day I planned to launch this new blog is the same day that Space Shot, the space tourism skill game, officially opened to the public. Space Shot, for those who have now been closely following its development, is an online skill game where contestants compete for a ride on Rocketplane Ltd.’s […] |
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For those of you who have wondered in from The Space Review or other locales, welcome to my new blog. Personal Spaceflight is devoted to the emerging space tourism industry (the blog takes its name from one of the alternative terms put forward for “space tourism”, although none seem to have the cachet of the […]