With commercial spaceflight around the corner, some may be given to wonder: What will private and research astronauts look like? There are only a couple of examples so far, and people tend to assume that astronauts have always appeared the same – pioneers in blue flightsuits with a determined, gritted jaw. However, such is not the […]
Read More Astronaut style, by decade…Today is another red-letter day for the commercial spaceflight industry as the VSS Enterprise, Virgin Galactic‘s orbital space tourist flagship, makes its debut atmospheric test flight. Constructed by US-based aerospace firm Scaled Composites, Enterprise is the first of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo-class of suborbital spacecraft, an upscaled version of the SpaceShipOne spacecraft that won the Ansari X-Prize […]
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Chronicles of an Atomic Astrowright 