Some good news for the Lunar Lander Challenge

It was looking a little bleak there for a while about whether anyone would be able to compete for the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge: Flight International posted a story with the discouraging title “FAA could call halt to NASA lunar lander challenge”, and, more ominously, Leonard David reported that Armadillo Aerospace “ran into snags” […]

Simonyi to fly in April 2007?

According to a Russian news agency former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi will fly to the ISS next spring. RIA Novosti reports that the next Soyuz mission to the ISS has been delayed from March to April 2007 so that the landing avoids the spring floods on the steppes of Kazakhstan. That mission will include Simonyi, […]

More ISPS coverage

MSNBC’s Alan Boyle checks on the potential profitability of space tourism in his wrapup of the first day of the International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight in Las Cruces, NM. Peter Diamandis says that he doesn’t expect “real profits” for such companies until about 2012, four years after he expects commercial flights to begin. “You didn’t […]

Judges? Yes. Competitors? Not yet.

We’re still not sure how many teams, if any, will be competing in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge at the Wirefly X Prize Cup at the end of this week, but at least we know who will be judging the competition (if, in fact, it occurs.) The X Prize Foundation announced the six judges […]