29 July 2012
Added "Space Debris and Its Mitigation" to the archive.
16 July 2012
Space Future has been on something of a hiatus of late. With the concept of Space Tourism steadily increasing in acceptance, and the advances of commercial space, much of our purpose could be said to be achieved. But this industry is still nascent, and there's much to do. So...watch this space.
9 December 2010
Updated "What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace" to the 2009 revision.
7 December 2008
"What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace" is now the top entry on Space Future's Key Documents list.
30 November 2008
Added Lynx to the Vehicle Designs page.
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Events / Tourism (Good)
30 June 1999 by Peter Wainwright
Ascender to appear at the Space Tourism Pavillion
The Space Tourism Pavillion will be a feature at this year's Tomorrow's World Live exhibition, organised and sponsored by the BBC Tomorrow's World programme, the UK's most popular science and technology show.
Online / General (None)
25 May 1999 by Peter Wainwright
New monthly online space magazine
Those interested in the ins and outs of space policy and broader issues of the commercial and not-so-commercial space industry should take a look at Space Policy Digest (http://spacepolicy.org), a monthy space magazine published online.
Events / Tourism (Good)
23 June 1999 by Peter Wainwright
Hosted by the newly formed Space Tourism division of STA
The newly formed Space Travel and Tourism devision of the STA will be hosting a space tourism conference in Washington this coming June, entitled:
Events / General (Good)
30 May 1999 by
Come join the festivities
Space Capitalists, a new group being formed by some of the members of the Houston Space Society, is planning a party at the International Space Development Conference being held here in Houston. The party will take place in our corner suite at the Radisson Hotel near Hobby Airport on Sunday 30 May 1999, starting at 9 p.m. and going as late as we please. Ask the hotel operator (from any house phone) to connect you with Jim Davidson's room, and someone will tell you the room number. Or look for the Space Pork Dollar posters.
News / Tourism (Good)
13 May 1999 by Patrick Collins
Two New Companies Add Reality to Space Future's Vision
Over the past few weeks, two self-made billionaire businessmen have established companies with the stated objective of playing roles in the commercial space tourism industry that is becoming increasingly widely recognised as the true future of space activities.
Publications / Tourism (None)
11 May 1999 by Patrick Collins
Proceedings of 1997 space tourism workshop in print at last
The team that produced the historic NASA/STA report, General Public Space Travel and Tourism, has now published Volume 2 - Workshop Proceedings, NASA/CP-1999-209146, dated February 1999.
Media / Tourism (Good)
30 March 1999 by Patrick Collins
Author to become new recruit for the cause?
"October Sky" is a delightful film based on the autobiographical book "Rocket Boys" by Homer Hickham Jr, which tells of his inspiration as a teenager by the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957. As a result he decided he wanted to build rockets, although his father wanted him to follow in his footsteps as a coal-miner. Encouraged by his school-teacher and his mother, Homer began building model rockets with some friends, and through persistence they ultimately won a national science competition - and scholarships that allowed them to escape from coal-mining. (Homer himself ended up working for NASA, from where he recently retired.)
Events / Tourism (Good)
16 March 1999 by Patrick Collins
The following are events open to the public that concern space tourism
/ General (Good)
12 March 1999 by Patrick Collins
FAA Breaking the Path
SATMS? ISFO? STC? No idea what they mean? Are you behind the times - or what?
/ General (Good)
4 March 1999 by Sam Coniglio
Huge Gathering of Space Activists Converge on Mojave
If attending the ROTON ATV rollout at Rotary Rocket Company’s facility wasn’t cool enough, the party afterward was the ultimate schmooze fest. Old friends and fellow space activists conversed with business and government leaders. It was like a joint National Space Society, Space Access Society, and Space Frontier Foundation conference.
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