This is very odd. Next week, a non-profit called Copenhagen Suborbitals will be testing a vehicle to launch a person into space. This flight will have a humanoid dummy aboard, not a person. But it would be an odd and impressive accomplishment nonetheless. The company itself consists of volunteers. Funding is by sponsors. (They also [...]

I don’t know for sure if this much is true…but there’s a report that the band Spandau Ballet will perform on a Virgin Galactic flight in 2012. My sources are blogs…and I don’t know what their sources are…so this is possible, but uncertain. In any case, one lucky passenger should be able to see the [...]

As any space buff knows, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth in February 1962, when he piloted the Friendship 7 spacecraft on a 3 -orbit mission. Fifty years later, a group called “Americans in Orbit – 50 Years” plans to celebrate with a repeat of that historic flight. They intend to [...]