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April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In the 1989 film classic, Field of Dreams, Ray Kinsella is told, "If you build it, they will come." The developers of Spaceport America have been depending on that idea. So far, it isn't working out. With a $209 billion dollar tax-payer funded price tag, Spaceport America is a rather large gamble for the New Mexico Space Authority (NMSA), the organization who designed, built and will operate the world's first private space...
KILLEEN, Texas, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronauts have lived and trained in Texas for 50 years, but no astronaut has ever flown into space from Texas. That will change in the next few years when XCOR Aerospace begins flights from a new spaceport in Midland, Texas. Maureen Adams, a teacher and principal at West Ward Elementary School in Killeen, hopes to be among the first Lone Star astronauts. Adams is an astronaut candidate who is part of Citizens in Space, a project of the...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Many businesses and companies have some sort of reward program for frequenting customers. I, for instance, am rewarded with at least two free cups of coffee every month at my local coffee conglomerate, as well as free syrups, refills and soy milk. Credit card companies have cash back programs, giving these card-wielding customers a small percentage back of how much they’ve charged. Sure, it’s not a way to save any significant...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Suborbital commercial spaceflight company XCOR Aerospace will be setting up shop far from its founding grounds of Mojave, California. According to officials, the next-generation spaceflight firm will be heading to Florida where it will build its vehicles and launch tourists, researchers and payloads from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). XCOR, which is developing the two-seat Lynx Mark II reusable launch vehicle, is planning on...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Growing demand for commercial spaceflight could turn a young market into a $1.6 billion industry within ten years, according to a new jointly-funded study. Tourism is driving about 80 percent of the market for suborbital flights to space, with more than 900 reservations already in place, according to Carissa Bryce Christensen of the Tauri Group. The Tauri Group conducted the study -- “Suborbital Reusable Vehicles: A Ten-Year...
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tauri Group, LLC announces the release of a forecast of demand for suborbital reusable vehicles (SRVs). SRVs are a new class of rocket-powered vehicles designed to cross the threshold of space, carrying cargo or people. The report, "Suborbital Reusable Vehicles: A Ten-Year Forecast of Market Demand," analyzes emerging SRV markets and identifies drivers of growth. Space Florida (Florida's spaceport authority and aerospace...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Richard Branson announced on Wednesday at the Farnborough Airshow near London that he and his family would be on Virgin Galactic's first trip into space. Branson showed off a full size mock-up of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo aircraft at the show this week. "Obviously this is the most exciting adventure I have ever undertaken," Branson, founder of the Virgin Galactic space program, told AFP. "It's both an entrepreneurial and...
FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today during the Farnborough International Air Show 2012, Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, announced "LauncherOne," a new air-launched rocket specifically designed to deliver small satellites into orbit. With substantial funding already raised from Virgin Galactic's partner aabar Investments PJS, and with commercial flights of this new orbital launch vehicle expected to begin by 2016, Virgin Galactic...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Virgin Galactic spaceship is expected to be making a debut at Farnborough International Airshow, which is considered to be the world's leading aviation marketplaces. The airshow lasts for six days, and will bring 250,000 industry people and fans to a small town west of London. According to reports, Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, will be using the event to reveal design changes to the company's SpaceShipTwo. This...
MIDLAND, Texas, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Midland Development Corporation (MDC) and XCOR Aerospace jointly announced today the establishment of XCOR's new Commercial Space Research and Development Center Headquarters that will be created over the next eighteen (18) months. XCOR manufactures reusable rocket engines for major aerospace prime contractors and is the designer, manufacturer and operator of the Lynx, a winged fully reusable, high performance suborbital space...
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Owen Garriott is a former United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut. He was born Owen Kay Garriott on November 22, 1930 in Enid, Oklahoma. In 1948 he graduated from Enid High School and then went on to attend the University of Oklahoma, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 1953. He subsequently joined the United States Navy and worked his way to the role of officer. However, just three years later Garriott decided to leave the Navy to pursue a higher...
