Sentences with phrase «manned suborbital»

«To formulate a regime for licensing UK companies» space tourism activities,... BNSC will be looking at proposals over the next few months and asking «stakeholders, which could be space law firms, insurance companies and relevant government departments, their views on space tourism for the manned suborbital flight licensing system it thinks it will need under the UK's Outer Space Act, which became law in 1986.»»

«Anytime you do research and development, there's a cost associated with it,» says Ian Murphy, director of media relations for the X Prize Foundation, which rewarded the first private manned suborbital flight.

Not exact matches

In 2004, SpaceShipOne was the first — and so far only — private manned spacecraft to fly above Earth's atmosphere in a suborbital arc.

There are a number of companies trying to build commercial suborbital spacecraft, but the current leader is Virgin Galactic, which will use a vehicle built by Burt Rutan, the designer of the Ansari X Prize — winning SpaceShipOne, the only private manned spacecraft thus far to have left the atmosphere.

His love of rockets spurred a $ 30 million gamble on SpaceShipOne, which won the X Prize as the first manned craft in suborbital space.

Maverick aircraft designer Burt Rutan captured the Ansari X Prize in 2004 by lofting his manned, reusable rocket plane SpaceShipOne into space, but that was a suborbital flight requiring about 2 percent of the energy needed to reach and maintain orbit.