Spaceport news

Yesterday was a big news for up-and-coming commercial spaceports that want to serve the space tourism market:

Oklahoma’s spaceport at the former Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base has received its operators license from the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation. (The announcement was rather low-key: while the FAA issued a press release about the license, that […]

It’s not unusual for Space Adventures to get astronaut advisors

Space Adventures announced yesterday that Tom Jones (the former astronaut, not the singer) has signed on the company’s advisory board. Jones is a veteran of four shuttle missions and recently published a memoir of his days as an astronaut, Sky Walking. “I’m impressed with the level of focus and dedication at Space Adventures in opening […]