Space Travel

India Prepares Moon Launch

NY Times | SOMINI SENGUPTA | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home


NEW DELHI -- India was preparing to launch its first unmanned space ship to the moon early Wednesday, part of an effort to assert its power in space a...

Space "Smells Like Steak And Metal," Astronauts Say

Times Online | Posted 11.17.2008 | Home


Outer space smells like hot metal, fried steak and the welding of a motorbike, scientists suggest. A chemist is recreating the smell to help Nasa to t...

Release 0.9: Back to (Flight) School

Esther Dyson | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business


Esther Dyson

I'll try play it cool as I mention casually that I'm about to start training as a backup cosmonaut for Charles Simonyi, who will be making his second trip into space this coming March.

Google Offers $30 Mil Prize To First To Land, Transmit From Moon

AP | Alicia Chang | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and bea...

Spaceport America: Virgin Galactic Unveils Plans For Tourist Spaceport In New Mexico

Business Week | Dianna Dilworth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


As NASA prepares to retire the space shuttle by the end of the decade, just in time for completion of the International Space Station, the tourism ind...