Is 2006 a banner year?

An article on the web site of Technology Review magazine argues that 2006 will see “an unprecedented number of private launches”. As evidence, the article cites the inaugural launch of the Falcon 1, the pending launch of the first Genesis inflatable module prototype by Bigelow Aerospace (now planned for Wednesday, according to the Roskosmos web […]

Space tourism medicine

One of the issues that space tourism operators will have to cope with as they ramp up operations in the coming years is what health requirements they set for their customers. Be too restrictive and you may exclude too many people, yet be too permissive and passengers could suffer injuries, or die, on flights, opening […]