SpaceX Changes the Game in Space Flight

by Space Frontier Press December 8, 2010 Cheap Access to Space

The Space Frontier Foundation congratulated SpaceX for completing the world’s first commercial orbital spaceflight and recovery. “This flight will go down in history as a turning point for the opening of space to regular people,” said Foundation Co-Founder Rick Tumlinson. “It may not be Yuri Gagarin, but it is certainly the equivalent of Sputnik for commercial spaceflight!”

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Change is Coming to NASA Space Launch

by Rick Tumlinson March 19, 2010 Advocacy

Change is coming to the US space program. At last! Real, dramatic and tangible change in both its effect and the course it will create in this nation’s future in space. It is long past time for us to try something different, as what we have been doing in our human space program since Apollo has been a failure of epic proportions.

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The Battle for a New Space Age Begins

by Rick Tumlinson February 12, 2010 SpaceFront

Isn’t it ironic that the agency which is supposed to be challenging the edge is taking so much heat for trying something new? I find myself teetering between laughter,  slipping into a Lewis Black moment and fear that this tiny step towards a pro-frontier space policy will be slaughtered the same way so many good [...]

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Handsome Reward for Microgravity Research Competition Winner

by William Watson May 1, 2009 Newspace News

$25,000 and a free ride on a Falcon 9 were given to a University of Texas team for their winning submission to the competition.  Article at Space.com

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Argentina Signs With SpaceX

by William Watson May 1, 2009 Newspace News

Argentina’s National Commission on Space Activity has purchased two Falcon 9 flights from Hawthorne, CA based Space Exploration Technologies, which are scheduled to launch by 2013.  Press Release at SpaceX

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The Highest Efficiency Rocket Engine Award Goes To…

by William Watson April 4, 2009 Newspace News

Space Exploration Technologies recently completed a full mission duration test firing of their new Merlin Vacuum Engine, which will propel the second stage of their Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle.  Press Release at Space Exploration Technologies

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