Originally priced (for museums) at $42 million each, the retiring space shuttles are now available at the rock-bottom price of only $28,200,000.95. (Okay, the 95 cents at the end was my idea…) In any case, some lucky museums which successfully raise that kind of money will end up as owners and caretakers of Atlantis and [...]

The biggest share of stimulus money awarded by NASA for a private spacecraft went to Sierra Nevada Corporation…which is developing Dream Chaser to carry astronauts to the International Space Station. The craft doesn’t exist yet (except as a full-scale mockup, pictured above), but the company claims it will be ready to go in 2014. The [...]

If you’ve been reading my blog (and if not, why not?!), you probably know that I’m not a big fan of the Obama administration’s plan for manned space travel. (PDF of official document on spaceflight.) With his decision to kill Constellation, and his notion of depending on Russia and, as yet, unproven (and in many [...]