Press bowled over by Virgin Galactic SS2 launch......almost literally!

Mojavewood Virgin Galactic SS2 event tent demolished by storm minutes after evacuation http://bit.ly/7RVLuS

Insight into the Man behind Virgin Galactic

Sir Richard Branson is no stranger to launching major new enterprises and Virgin Galactic is arguably the boldest of them all, which may turn out to be the one he is most remembered for http://bit.ly/82pcKu

New Zealander's Commercial Rocket makes it into Space!

No luck yet with finding the 2nd stage with the payload, but the 1st stage was retrieved and they have a bunch of telemetry data to analyse http://bit.ly/6yQOh4

Memorials in Space

For those of you interested in finding out more about whats behind the New Zealand rocket memorial messages, Celestis are one of the collaborators http://j.mp/8tv4ML

Launch into Space with messages for the deceased

New Zealand based company Rocket Lab successfully launched their first rocket from Great Mercury island into Space carrying a payload of 23,000 messages to deceased family relations. http://bit.ly/8zY6ED

Beam us up Scotty

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic may establish a spaceport in Scotland for sub-orbital spaceflights. In anticipation of the first fully commmercial Space Tourism operation, Virgin Galactic is busy signing up wealthy daredevils for its first flights and plans to build a number of spaceports in strategic locations around the world. http://bit.ly/Vhx7e

How the Russian MIR space Station was almost handed over to commercial enterprise

Spacevidcast interviews Michael Potter who produced the documentary film Orphans of Apollo which tells the true story of how a group of business men formed a company called MirCorp and came very close to taking over operation of the Russian MIR space station.

Interviews with the leaders behind Spaceport America

Kathleen Koch interviews Governor Bill Richardson, Executive Director of Spaceport America Steve Landeene, Virgin Galactic CEO Stephen Attenborough, Seinor Space Analyst Jeff Foust of the Futron Corperation and UP Aerospace President Jerry Larson.

Animated simulation of how Virgin Galactic will take you into Space

The journey to Space inside the Virgin Galactic Spaceship will involve an initial climb to 50,000 feet attached to the Virgin Mothership VMS Eve at which point it will be released and the rocket propulsion engine ignited to take the Spaceship on an almost vertical ascent to an altitude of 360,000 feet (68 miles). At maximum altitude or Apogee the space tourists will be allowed to leave their seats to experience zero gravity weightlessness and observe the view of Earth from Space. In preparation for re-entry the spaceship switches to a unique feather wing configuration which act as an air brake and ensures a stable and controlled descent. Once the spaceship returns to an altitude of 60,000 feet the feathered wing tips will be rotated back gradually to enable the spaceship to transition to a glider. The Virgin Galactic spaceship will then land in a similar to which the Space Shuttle does currently with an un-powered glide back to the Spaceport.

Masten Space Systems flight 7 of XA-0.1B-750 reusable launch vehicle demonstrator

This latest test, Masten is obviously making progress with the flight control system and achieving a controlled hover whilst performing 45 degrees rotations.