Exactly a half-century ago today, President John F. Kennedy declared in a landmark speech America’s rationale for achieving the impossible: Going to the Moon. And it is in this speech, which we commemmorate on the day after another anniversary marked by such tragedy, in a social climate today burdened with so much loss, strife, and economic depression, […]
Read More Remembering September 12, 1962I’m pleased to report that I recently had the fortune to represent my spaceflight consulting firm Astrowright as a sponsor of, as well as present research at, the Next-Generation Suborbital Researcher’s Conference this past February 26-29 in Palo Alto, CA. Specifically, after nearly a year of research and client-training-data-mining together with my friend/ballet-dancer/anthropologist/excercise-scientist/astronaut-trainer/partner-in-crime Ashley Boron, our presentations centered this year on our frontier fitness […]
Read More A shotgun blast of suborbital scienceWith 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…A short note today on welcome news. While it isn’t necessarily new news at this point, it’s something that didn’t get a lot of play when it came out, and in my view it really should have. So, what is it? It’s a sigh of relief for everyone rooting for the success of commercial spaceflight: […]
Read More Columbia shuttle disaster board supports commercial spaceflightFor those of you who have known me a while, who have had to endure my many rants during the last decade-and-a-half about the future and the promise of corporate space exploration, I have four words: I told you so. It’s with an almost electric sense of expectation that I am pleased to report a […]
Read More Dawn of the Corporate Scientist-AstronautHot-off-the-press: The Space Tourist Wars have begun. Space Adventures, the same firm that has made millions brokering seats for space tourists to Mir and the International Space Station, recently announced a new partnership with reusable rocket pioneer Armadillo Aerospace to offer suborbital space flights for half of what Virgin Galactic is charging per seat. That’s right – mark […]
Read More Space Wars Begin: Armadillo Aerospace undercuts Virgin Galactic!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 […]
Read More Liftoff – VSS Enterprise
Chronicles of an Atomic Astrowright 