You can listen to Foundation Advocate Dr. David Livingston's radio show
The Space Show
by clicking above. |
Books recommended by the Foundation:
| This book presents case studies in the history of all the major rockets built by the United States. |
| Women of Space by Laura S. Woodmansee – Girls, young women, and anyone else interested in learning about space exploration will be inspired by these career descriptions. Click above to order from Amazon.com. |
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| Best Rocket Failure Ever |
Elon Musk looks on the bright side of Falcon 1’s maiden flight failure, and brother Kimbal reports on the remarkably simple payload recovery technique.
SpaceX Update and KwajRockets
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| Private Companies Vie |
A number of companies submitted proposals for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation System program, but only a few are telling.
MSNBC Space
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| Doing Launch With FAA |
Some suggestions for tweaking the bureaucratic lingo of proposed spaceflight rules.
Wired
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| How To Be A Space Case |
Columnist figures out how to win the Bigelow prize and publicize his latest novel, "Orbit."
ABC News
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| Look! Up in the Sky! |
The final frontier is tempting eager entrepreneurs.
San Francisco Chronicle
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| They’re Off |
The race for suborbital space tourism takes wing.
HappyNews.com
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| Still Out There |
Why we should settle space before we get stuck here.
AdAstra
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| Bye Bye Birdie |
Off-course ArabSat goes into the Pacific, dashing hopes of satellite-rescuers.
MSNBC Space
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Space Hawks Chase
Death Rays |
Wired News portrays March Storm as aerospace employees lobbying on behalf of military ambitions. ProSpace says "What the--??!"
SpacePolitics.com
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| My Vacation In Space |
Exclusive audience hears the rarely told tale of Dennis Tito’s trailblazing trip to space.
The Acorn
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| Bad Food, Dodgy Plumbing |
Professor Patrick Collins explains the ins and outs early space tourists can expect.
TheStar, Malaysia
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| Flight Restriction |
Virgin Galactic explains why only natural women may qualify to fly on SpaceShipTwo.
The Sun
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| Will She or Won’t She? |
Russians claim Anousheh Ansari steps into number 2 spot for next joyride to ISS, but US partners say announcement is wishful thinking.
Space.com
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| Fire & Flamey Stuff |
Flying under the radar so far, Masten Space is in the race.
Masten Space blog
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| Rocket Town News |
Pentagon approves launch monopoly, requires good behavior. FTC may still ground the (your adjective here) alliance. Sea Launch exec jumps ship to join SpaceX.
Decatur Daily
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| Up With Upham |
Spaceport funding secured, New Mexico sweetens the deal for upstart space companies that can snag NASA contracts worth $100 million or more.
Space.com
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| Responsive Space |
ISR, TacSat, AFRL, DARPA , RASCAL, ORS, CENTCOM… If you don't already know what all these things are, start here.
Air Force Magazine
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| 2020 Vacation Vision |
The future of vacation travel is about collecting experiences, and early space trips will confer ultimate bragging rights.
Arizona Republic
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| Fly Me To the Moon |
Space station tourist Greg Olsen says he’s a potential customer for the next big thing in personal space travel, a Soyuz trip around the Moon.
Forbes video via Space Transport News
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| Keys to Space Gold |
Sobering opinion from the heart of the space tourism industry.
RIANovosti
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75 NewSpace Companies and Organizations
Note: this is an informal list, meaning the only requirement to be here is an active website. If you see an error, or wish to add a company or organization, please inform us by using our Comments page. Ultimately, the power of the marketplace will determine who remains listed. |
| Past Issues of NewSpace News |
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NewSpace News #9 March 1, 2006 – Items include The Entrepreneur's Guide to the Galaxy, Public Space Travel, French Kistler, SeaLaunch Afloat, Heinlein Prize, Vertical Drag Racing, SpaceX's Falcon 1, The Real Stairway to Space Heaven, Final Frontier Littered with Junk, and more. |
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NewSpace News #8 February 1, 2006 – Items include Up a Creek Without ORS, The Right $tuff, NASA Gags Top Scientist, Soyuz Booked Up, Spaceport Defended, The Entreprenauts, Rocketship Kazakh, NewSpace Cowboys, March Storm 2006, and more. |
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NewSpace News #7 January 1, 2006 – Items include RocketForge, Virgin Atlantic, COTS, Private Companies Compete for Moon Trips, Masten Space Systems, NASA Seeks Help from Private Rocketeers, XCOR, and Europe's first Galileo (Giove-A) launch success, and more. |
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NewSpace News #6 December 1, 2005 – Items include Space Calendar, the B612 Foundation, SpaceX's Falcon 1, Hayabusa collects asteroid samples, Masten Space Systems, Air Force General Pete Worden promotes space as a solution to Earth's biggest problems, and more. |
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NewSpace News #5 November 1, 2005 – Items include Space Shot, ACES and ISS Commerce, Armadillo Aerospace, Orbital Recovery, SpaceDev, Space Services Inc., Seeks Solar Weather Biz, Greg Olsen's Flight, Interorbital Systems, and more. |
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NewSpace News #4 October 1, 2005 – Items include IMAX's Magnificent Desolation, Space Films does a high-def commercial on the ISS for a Japanese client, New Mexico Spaceport Plans, John Herrington joins Rocketplane, author Ben Bova has an idea for saving the ISS, and more. |
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NewSpace News #3 September 1, 2005 – Items include XCOR, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipThree, FindMeaCrater.com, NASA Launches Startups for Ships, Orion Propulsion, views of opening the frontier by Elon Musk of SpaceX and SpaceDev's Jim Benson, Trip to ISS Helps Sell Jets, and more. |
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NewSpace News #2 August 1, 2005 – Items include Space Frontier Conference 14, a $100 million Lunar round trip offering, Ron Howard's Xquest, Honeymooners Sign Up for Virgin Space Quickie, The Institute for Space Law & Policy, and more. |
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NewSpace News #1 July 1, 2005 – The Space Frontier Foundation is proud to announce the first issue of its new monthly electronic newsletter. NewSpace News briefly summaries a dozen or so of the more relevant NewSpace stories of the past month and provides links to the original stories. So, if you want to know why Florida announced a weight loss program for 15 teachers, or what's with those guys sticking a rocket up a Lear Jet's tail, or why t/Space is throwing dummies out of airplanes, you should click the link above. |
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NewSpace News #0 June 1, 2005 – The prototype of NewSpace News, the Space Frontier Foundation's new monthly electronic newsletter. NewSpace News briefly summaries a dozen or so of the more relevant NewSpace stories of the past month and provides links to the original stories. Stories in the prototype include news about PlanetSpace, SpaceX's Falcon 1, a possible Boeing/Lockheed monopoly, Teachers in NewSpace, and Aera Corp, a new and mysterious NewSpace company. |
| The Space Frontier Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the Space Frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible. Our goals include protecting the Earth's fragile biosphere and creating a freer and more prosperous life for each generation by using the unlimited energy and material resources of space. Our purpose is to unleash the power of free enterprise and lead a united humanity permanently into the Solar System. |
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The High Frontier is Gerard K. O'Neill's masterpiece. This new 3rd Edition Includes an introduction by Freeman Dyson.
Click above to order The High Frontier from Amazon.com . |
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