US Offers Guidelines for Commercial Space Travel
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Aspiring space tourists got some proposed guidelines on Thursday from the U.S. government, including advice to get a physical exam before traveling and to accept the risks involved by signing a form.
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With polls showing Americans desire of space exploration, NASA has received the green signal from Congress to carry out voyages to Moon and eventually to Mars.
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That&#39;s the recommendation from a panel from the National Academy of Sciences concerning a mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A commercial spaceliner and a Woodstock-like space festival are the next planned steps in what has been called a &quot;personal space flight revolution.
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A number of countries are developing ways to knock out U.S. space systems, threatening vital national interests, the State Department's point man on international security said on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES - Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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The government is to launch a review into whether there should be British astronauts to take part in space exploration.
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Russian Space Agency said on Tuesday it will stop giving free space trips to US astronauts. The agency chief Anatoly Perminov quoted by Reiters said they âwill put US astronauts into orbit only on a commercial basisâ from 2006.
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Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), Agence France Presse reported on Friday citing Vyacheslav Davydenko, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency.
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By BARRY SCHWEID  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration warned Wednesday against threats by terrorist groups and other nations against U.S. commercial and military satellites, and discounted the need for a treaty aimed at preventing an arms race in space.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has signed a deal with a company owned by British entrepreneur Richard Branson to develop space tourism.
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Description: We consider what might be ahead for the future of private space travel. Will the SpaceShipOne flight kick off a new era of space development?
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 12  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After traveling thousands of miles, a major component of the International Space Station is set to begin preparations for launch.
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Sir Richard Branson announces that he has signed an agreement to develop the world&#39;s first privately funded space travel. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA.
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President Bush plans to give private industry a greater role in space and encourage new commercial markets, including for human space flight.