Nice day for a weightless wedding

It may be some time before people get married in space (or maybe not, if you can do a condensed ceremony on a suborbital flight), but when it happens, one thing the bride won’t have to worry about is what to wear. The Guardian reports that Japanese fashion designer Eri Matsui has designed a wedding […]

Wanted: remarkable spaceport designs

The New Mexico Economic Development Department’s occasionally-updated Pulsar blog reports that “basic infrastructure” is being installed at the Southwest Regional Spaceport site in southern New Mexico. Proposals for the overall architecture of the spaceport design are due next week, with a final design to be announced this summer. The design, the post notes, should be […]

Olsen honors his alma mater

Greg Olsen is scheduled to be in Los Angeles Thursday for the ORBIT awards dinner at ISDC, but he has something arguably more important to do today. The Newark Star-Ledger reports that Olsen plans to announce a $5 million donation to his alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University, today. Normally in response to such a donation, […]