Space Tourism Faces Safety Regulations
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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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As NASA prepares to return the space shuttle to orbit, there is debate over whether the fleet is as safe as it should be.
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Legislation to regulate the infant space tourism industry &#151; invigorated by the successful flights of a privately financed manned rocket &#151; has been stalled by disagreements over how much protection to offer potential space travelers.
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The US space agency, NASA, continues work on improving the safety of the space shuttle, before the fleet of orbiters resumes its visits to the international space station next year.
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The radiation astronauts encounter in deep space could put vital blood-making cells in jeopardy.
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EADS wants to boldly go where plenty have been before and beat the likes of Richard Branson to the stars.   The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company wants to get into the space tourism business before 2010.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
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Although still more work needs to be done, NASA officials said Monday that they were close to meeting all safety requirements for getting space shuttles flying again by the spring.
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The dream of opening space to the general public was given a tremendous boost in 2004 with SpaceShipOne's prize-winning suborbital jaunt and congressional legislation to help establish a space travel industry in the United States. But even the biggest champions of commercial spaceflight acknowledge that a vital space tourism market is still years from becoming reality.
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SpaceShipOne pioneer Burt Rutan gives a glimpse of what paying passengers can expect when they travel into space.
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After years of capturing the imagination of wide-eyed daredevils, dreamers and would-be entrepreneurs, space travel for ordinary people may finally be taking flight.
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SpaceShipOne pioneer Burt Rutan gives a glimpse of what fare-paying passengers can expect when they take their ride into space.
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Thrill-seekers looking to blast into space from the U.S. would need to be informed in writing of serious risks &#151; including death &#151; and promise not to sue the government under the first-ever rules for commercial space travel by American companies.
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NASA is working to solve a potentially dangerous vibration problem in its next generation of launching vehicles.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is set to launch another component of the International Space Station into orbit on Friday, three months behind schedule but in compliance with more rigorous safety standards imposed after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
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The US space agency, NASA, says work continues on safety improvements on the space shuttle design in anticipation of the shuttle&#39;s return to flight in 2005.
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Space is the one frontier that&#39;s out of reach to the average person, but the feeling of space travel is now a little less elusive.