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Inside Commercial Spaceflight

  • Design Changes and Risks Resolution Delay the Crew Commercial Program
  • The New Shepard rocket, moments before its first successful landing. credits: Blue OriginBlue Origin Historic First
  • JPL Technician working on Curiosity's wheels. - Credits: NASA.Commercial Space Safety Standards: Let’s Not Re-Invent the Wheel
  • SpaceX Wins Vladimir Syromiatnikov Safety-by-Design Award
  • Suborbital flight is gaining popularity not just for tourists, but for research as well (Credits: NASA).“Doctor, Doctor, Can I Go?” Medical Rules, Standards, and Guidelines for Suborbital Space
  • Reputation Management in Space
  • Image caption: This artist concept depicts a crewed SpaceX Dragon capsule being launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX intends for this vision to happen within four years (Credits: SpaceX).SpaceX Reaches Key Safety Milestone, Prepares for 2014 Abort Tests
  • In 1997, a Progress cargo ship crashed into Mir's Spektr module during an experimental docking maneuver. What would happen if a commercial vehicle did the same? (Credits: NASA).Space Tourism Insurance: What Happens When You Crash into a Space Station?
  • Artist conception of NASA SLS launchCross-Talk: Space Law in Down-To-Earth English
  • Zero2Infinity, a New Way for Space Tourism
  • The Wright Military Flyer arrives at Fort Myer, Virginia aboard a wagon in 1908 (Credits: US Department of Defense).To Summon the Future…
  • Earth as seen from spaceCross-Talk: Space Law in Down-To-Earth English
  • SpaceX Making Commercial Spaceflight a Reality: A Review
  • Space: The New Frontier
  • Virgin Galactic: A Space Flight Veteran's View
  • SHIPinSPACE Aims to Fly 48 Passengers on a Suborbital Plane
  • The Time to Organize Space Safety is NOW
  • The Incredible Shrinking CCDev
  • Training for Fear: the Creation of Inner Space Training
  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Space Tourism but Were Afraid to Ask
  • Are You Healthy Enough for Commercial Spaceflight?
  • SpaceX to Launch Private Astronauts in 2015
  • It’s All about People: NASA Psychiatrist Explains Why Space Itself Is Not Detrimental
  • Health Clearance for Space Tourists
  • Space Tourism, Just a Balloon Ride Away
  • A New Commercial Approach to Space Safety
  • Mission Highlights: SpaceX's Dragon Makes History
  • Virgin Galactic's LauncherOne Promises Accessible Space
  • Companies like NASTAR aim to provide standardized training for suborbital spaceflight participants, but the curricula are anything but standardized. Pictured here, a NASTAR class in the altitude chamber (Credits: NASTAR Center).NASTAR Center Updates Suborbital Flight Training
  • German Firm to Insure Space Tourists
  • Future Private Market for Human Spaceflight
  • Excalibur Almaz Awarded Unfunded SAA
  • ATK Signs Unfunded Space Act Agreement With NASA For Liberty Rocket Development
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Browse The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

  • Evidence of foam loss preceding the disastrous Shuttle Columbia reentry (Credits: NASA)How We Nearly Lost Discovery: Returning to Flight After Columbia
  • Remembering Columbia
  • Learning from Columbia
  • Remnants of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, stored in the RLV hangar at Kennedy Space Center (Credits: NASA).Organizational Factors of the Columbia Disaster
  • The Columbia Disaster and Space Program Safety
  • Columbia And The Day of Remembrance
  • Sixteen Minutes from Home
  • STS-107: Columbia's Lost Crew
  • Columbia debris reconstructionTimeline of the Columbia Disaster
  • Columbia Disaster Recommended Reading
  • Sacriflight by Lloyd Behrendt, commemorates Columbia's last launchColumbia Disaster Creative Works
  • The Columbia Disaster In Perspective
  • A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).Cause and Consequences of the Columbia Disaster
  • According to CAIB, destruction of the crew module took place over a period of 24 seconds, beginning at an altitude of approximately 42,672m and ending at 32,000m (Credits: NASA).Lessons Learned from the Columbia Disaster
  • Columbia streaking over the Very Large Array radio telescope in Socorro, New Mexico (Credits: NASA).Impact of Columbia Disaster on US Aviation Safety
  • Columbia debris reconstructionLiving with Columbia: Interview with Mike Cianilli
  • Remembering the Columbia Crew, One Day at a Time
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