Bezos Rocket Company Is a New Leader in the Suborbital Space Race

Edit Bloomberg 28 Oct 2016
When it reached 16,000 feet, where it’s at peak aerodynamic stress, the rocket tested its emergency escape system ... Source. Blue Origin ... Virgin has been king of that field ever since it acquired the technology and team behind SpaceShipOne, which carried out suborbital flights in 2004. Besides the 2014 crash, though, the company had trouble bulking up SpaceShipOne’s relatively low-power engine for use in the larger SpaceShipTwo ... LEARN MORE....

Top 25: What corporate America is reading, September 2016

Edit The Miami Herald 13 Oct 2016
1. "How to Make a Spaceship. A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight" by Julian Guthrie, Penguin Press. 2. "The Universe Has Your Back. Transform Fear to Faith" by Gabrielle Bernstein, Hay House. 3. "Simply Brilliant ... The story of the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne and the other teams in the hunt to send everyday citizens to space is an extraordinary tale of making the impossible possible....

Update from Mojave: VSS Unity’s First Flight Test Completed (Virgin Galactic LLC)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Oct 2016
(Source. Virgin Galactic LLC). September 09, 2016 ... An incredible amount of research, discovery, and iteration has already gone into this program-starting with SpaceShipOne's initial proof of concept and progressing through the flight test of VSS Enterprise, testing of the raw materials that were used to build our new spaceship, component testing, and most recently the Integrated Ground Vehicle Testing of VSS Unity ... (noodl. 35717344) ....

Peter Diamandis shares his 4 best tips for starting a successful business

Edit Business Insider 30 Sep 2016
XPRIZE — which launched the private spaceflight industry — was an "overnight success" after 10 years of hard work. Dr. Peter Diamandis (@PeterDiamandis) has been named one of "The World's 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune magazine ... Enjoy! ... attitude is the ball game ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... I first heard a variation of this concept from Burt Rutan, the man who designed and built SpaceShipOne, the brilliant launch vehicle that won the $10M Ansari XPRIZE....

A virtual marketplace for a future Moon Village? The FAA just might make it happen

Edit Yahoo Daily News 29 Sep 2016
An artist’s conception shows a permanent lunar base that’s part of the European Space Agency’s “Moon Village” vision. (Credit. ESA) ...Think of it as a corkboard,” Nield said ... George Nield, the FAA’s associate administrator for commercial space transportation, pays a visit to the SpaceShipOne rocket plane in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. (Credit. FAA file) ...   ... That’s what LMASS would do....

A dream leads to new space race

Edit Arkansas Online 25 Sep 2016
Elon Musk's rocket-building company SpaceX and Jeffrey Bezos' similar Blue Origins have grabbed the headlines in the space race. But there is a fascinating back story about how the private space industry came into being ... A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight ... How these foam models led to the world's first private spaceship, SpaceShipOne, is one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time....

The Green Universe: A Vision

Edit The New York Review of Books 25 Sep 2016
Ron Miller ... Robert Dicke was an experimental physicist at Princeton University. He liked to build things with his own hands. When NASA began making plans for landing astronauts on the moon, he thought of a scheme that would allow the astronauts to make a serious contribution to science. This would be good for science and also good for the astronauts ... He designed and built the SpaceShipOne vehicle that won the prize in 2004 ... ....

The renegade whose dream started the latest space race

Edit Venture Beat 20 Sep 2016
Elon Musk’s company SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origins have grabbed the headlines in the space race, both of them building rockets and spacecraft. But there is fascinating backstory on how this race and the private space industry came into existence ... 20, 2016), tells that story ... How these foam models led to the world’s first private spaceship, SpaceShipOne, is one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time....

The billionaire space barons and the next giant leap

Edit Albuquerque Journal 24 Aug 2016
The stage for the rocket’s debut ... Bezos, who had fought to secure the launch pad for himself ... Allen teamed with aerospace engineer Burt Rutan to develop SpaceShipOne, which was the first commercial vehicle to reach space in 2004 ... In 2004, Allen teamed up with legendary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan to develop SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million contest, and became the first commercial vehicle to reach space ... ....

Smithsonian Explores 50 Years of "Star Trek" (Smithsonian Institution)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Aug 2016
(Source. Smithsonian Institution). The 50th anniversary of Star Trek is Sept. 8, and the National Air and Space Museum is inviting fans to celebrate with 'Boldly Go 50'-three nights of special programs sponsored by the Roddenberry Foundation ... Louis' to SpaceShipOne, and now including the 11-foot studio model of the starship Enterprise used in all 79 episodes of the original series. Thursday, Sept. 8 ... Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va ... 9 ... 10....

After Fatality, Autonomous Car Development May Speed Up

Edit IFL Science 08 Aug 2016
The world has witnessed enormous advances in autonomous passenger vehicle technologies over the last dozen years ... Software for controlling and navigating these systems has similarly improved ... The successes are real ... Nineteen months later were up to the task ... roads ... The public’s optimism about civilian space tourism increased dramatically with the successful flights of Scaled CompositesSpaceShipOne in June 2004....

How a Driver’s Death Could Fuel Innovation for Self-Driving Cars

Edit Slate 08 Aug 2016
This article originally appeared in the Conversation. The world has witnessed enormous advances in autonomous passenger vehicle technologies over the last dozen years ... Software for controlling and navigating these systems has similarly improved ... The successes are real ... roads ... The public’s optimism about civilian space tourism increased dramatically with the successful flights of Scaled CompositesSpaceShipOne in June 2004 ... alone ... As U.S....
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