Gravity and paperwork

“Our two greatest problems are gravity and paperwork,” Wernher von Braun is credited as saying. “We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” That’s a sentiment likely shared by some of the companies hoping to compete in the Lunar Lander Challenge late this week at the Wirefly X Prize Cup. While some companies […]

Revisiting space sports and Benson Space

In an article in this week’s issue of The Space Review, Rocky Persaud reexamines the idea of “space sports” discussed last week in a Taylor Dinerman article. Persaud believes that zero-gravity sports (like the “Zero Gravity Football” his company, IPX Entertainment, is trying to develop) could spur public interest in spaceflight and space tourism. It’s […]

ISPS preview

On Tuesday and Wednesday New Mexico State University will host the second International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight (ISPS) in Las Cruces. The local newspaper, the Sun-News, offers a preview of the event, with conference organizers trying to drum up interest in the event from the local community. “There are going to be some amazing people […]

Space (tourism) oddity

David Bowie, it seems, has no desire to be a real-life Major Tom. According to a report from the entertainment news service bangshowbiz.biz, Bowie has said rumors that he has signed up to fly on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo are “total tosh”. (We’re not completely sure what “total tosh” means, but it doesn’t sound too favorable.) […]