Personal spaceflight symposium

I noted when the new X Prize Cup site went live last week that there was no mention of other activities associated with the cup, like a space tourism symposium held at New Mexico State Univ. a few days before last year’s event. Yesterday someone tipped me off to the fact that, yes, that conference, […]

Motion sickness stats

A related item to the post earlier this week about Congressman Frank Lucas talking up the Oklahoma Spaceport in his district: in an article in the Alva Review-Courier Lucas trotted out some statistics regarding spaceflight at a town meeting. “From my research I’ve determined that 40 percent of citizens who encounter weightlessness for the first […]