Quetzalandia - Training

Plan a space trip in the future: http://www.spacex.com.

Space, the Final Frontier?

• AirLaunch LLC Developer of the QuickReach TM vehicle for affordable space lift.
• Kistler Aerospace Corporation "...is embarking on a historic journey to create the world's first fully reusable aerospace vehicles. Our goal is to become a delivery service to low earth orbit that will radically realign the economics of doing business in space. Satellites will be our parcels; our vehicles will be operated in repeated flights with air freight efficiency. In essence, we are creating the "UPS" of space." 2 stage, partially reusable system.
• Microcosm, Inc. "Scorpius is a family of low-cost launch vehicles under development whose goal is to reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of 10!" Recent successful launch attempt from White Sands!
• Rocketplane Limited, Inc. Rocketplane Ltd., Inc. has obtained tax credits from the state of Oklahoma to develop a re-usable sub-orbital tourist business at the Oklahoma Spaceport. In addition to the XP, Rocketplane is developing future space vehicle programs that will have a high return on investment. We will achieve these goals by designing and building state-of-the-art reusable spacecraft, providing unparalleled human training and spaceflight experiences, and transporting innovative scientific experiments and valuable payloads to sub-orbital space and beyond.
• SpaceX, Inc. ...is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to substantially reduce the cost of reliable access to space. The company officially began operations in June 2002 and is located in the heart of the aerospace industry in Southern California, about a mile from LAX.
Companies Marketing Russian/Ukrainian Launchers
• COSMOS International GmbH COSMOS is the world's most successful two stage liquid propellant space transportation system for small to medium payloads up to 1500 kg into low earth orbits. COSMOS was effective in 97.4% of its more than 740 launches.
• EUROROCKET Launch Services GmbH EUROCKOT is a joint venture company founded by DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) of Germany holding 51% and Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (Khrunichev) of Russia holding 49%.
• Kosmotras Established in 1997 for development and commercial operation of the Dnepr Space Launch System based on SS-18 ICBM technology.
• International Launch Services Sells Protons and Angara.
• SeaLaunch Co. "Sea Launch Co., LDC, the U.S.-based multi-national commercial satellite launching venture led by Boeing, continues its march toward a first lift-off in June 1998 from its unique ocean-going launch complex in June 1998." Will use Ukrainian built Zenit rockets. First test – March, 1999!
• Starsem Markets the venerable Soyuz launcher.
Space & Zero-G Tourism and Training Companies
• Environmental Tectonics Corporation (Amex: ETC) ("ETC") has been the world leader in aeromedical training for more than thirty-five years. Our pioneering technologies have created training solutions for the most rigorous stresses encountered during high performance aircraft flight including the effects of altitude exposure, high G exposure, Spatial Disorientation, and escape from a disabled aircraft. This experience uniquely qualifies ETC to provide solutions for travel into the next frontier...space.
• Interglobal Space Lines, Inc. "This is your one-stop shop for space tourist experiences! We are currently offering weightless trips to the general public in the United States. If you don't want to experience free fall right now, feel free to check out our plans for future offerings."
• Orbital Commerce Project is developing the premier crew training program for suborbital flight.
• Space Adventures, Inc. "Through Space Adventures and its partners, hundreds of people have traveled past the speed of sound; thousands have ventured to the Arctic and Antarctica, and millions have experienced exotic locales around the world. Now we're ready to take you out of this world!"
• Spacetopia Japan's first space travel company.
• Virgin Galactic A company established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group to undertake the challenge of developing space tourism for everybody. Virgin Galactic will own and operate privately built spaceships, modeled on the history-making SpaceShipOne craft. These spaceships will allow affordable sub-orbital space tourism for the first time in our history.
• X Rocket, LLC is a spaceflight services company. Our goal is to make commercial human spaceflight safe, routine, and affordable by offering training and education to industry, government, and the general public. Innovation begins at the low end. At X-Rocket, we specialize in suborbital vehicles that can be developed cheaply, put into service quickly, and operated at low cost. We believe that low-cost suborbital vehicles will revolution the space industry, the same way low-cost microcomputers revolutionized the computer industry.
• Zero Gravity Corporation is a privately held space entertainment and tourism company headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The company's first product offering is commercial, Weightless Flights aboard a specially modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft. ZERO-G is the only company approved by the FAA to conduct Weightless Flights for the public. These are the same type of flights used by NASA to train their astronauts and used by Ron Howard in the filming of Apollo 13. ZERO-G's mission is to make the excitement and adventure of space accessible to the public in a safe, fun, and cost-effective fashion.
Infrastructure/Subsystems Companies
• Aero Astro founded in 1988, changes the way space is used to get results right here on Earth. AeroAstro has brought satellite costs down so significantly that many applications never even considered are now practical.
• AstroVision In 2008, AstroVision Australia Limited intends to deliver the first live, continuous true color image stream of the Earth. Publicly traded in Australia – ASX: HZG
• Bigelow Aerospace General Contractor providing design, engineering, and assembly of space complexes.
• Constellation Services International, Inc. Logistics for orbital platforms.
• California Spaceport The facility is designed as a cost-effective solution for military / government, civilian, academic and commercial needs. Located on Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Spaceport provides turnkey services for a wide variety of satellite and booster requirements.
• Flometrics We have developed a flexible, safe, reliable, low cost rocket fuel pump which has better performance than turbopump or pressure fed systems. The fuel and oxidizer pump system is the most difficult and time consuming part of a liquid fuel launch vehicle. The Flometrics Pistonless Pump will open up new markets for launch vehicles and spacecraft by increasing the safety and performance of propulsion systems.
• Frontier Astronautics produces reliable space-grade propulsion and attitude control systems hardware for the Private Space Industry. Through innovative application of mature technologies, we produce simpler, safer, and more robust space system hardware.
• Orbital Recovery Corporation is developing a unique new concept to extend the useful life of multi-million dollar telecommunications satellites by 10 years or more.
• Space Propulsion Systems is an aerospace company that specializes in the research and development of patent pending state-of-the-art manufacturing and chemical process technologies that are both environmentally friendly, and cost efficient.
• Tether Applications Developing space tethers for use in aerospace environments.
• Tethers Unlimited is an aerospace R&D company developing long life and high strength space tether technology such as the Hoytether, the Terminator Tether, and Tether Transport Systems. A space tether is a long cable used to couple spacecraft to each other or to other masses, such as a spent booster rocket, space station, or an asteroid.
• Universal Space Network, Inc. USN is an innovative company, founded by aerospace pioneer Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr., which has built a ground network of tracking stations to provide "cost-effective" space operations and telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C) services to support "earth-orbiting" assets. The USN team consists of industry professionals with broad aerospace experience, ensuring that customers receive the highest quality technical expertise and customer service available.
• XCOR Aerospace, Inc. is a company dedicated to commercial rockets. XCOR Aerospace develops reusable rocket engines and complete rocket vehicles for private and government markets. They are currently flying the EZ-Rocket, a manned reusable rocket aircraft which has demonstrated two flights in one day.
Commercial Space Exploration Companies
• Lunar Resources Company The corporate arm of the Artemis Society, planning a commercial lunar base.
• SpaceDev (OTCBB: SPDV) creates and sells affordable and innovative space products and solutions to government and commercial enterprises. SpaceDev products and solutions include the design, manufacture, marketing and operation of sophisticated micro and nano satellites, hybrid rocket-based orbital Maneuvering and orbital Transfer Vehicles (MoTVs) as well as safe sub-orbital and orbital hybrid rocket-based propulsion systems.
• TransOrbital is the only private company to be authorized by the U.S. State Department and NOAA for commercial flights to the Moon. The TrailBlazer lunar orbiter will be the first delivery service to the Moon. Delivered to the Moon surface in a special capsule will be your certificates, business cards, cremated remains, jewelry, artwork and many other items of choice. The TrailBlazer satellite will deliver commercial and scientific projects and experiments to lunar orbit, as well as conduct lunar exploration and mapping.
• Transformational Space Corporation Opening space to frontier settlement and development requires breakthroughs in lower costs and higher safety. The t/Space team is working toward these goals by combining the rapid-prototyping approach of its innovative aerospace partners with the in-space experience of key personnel drawn from the White House, NASA and large aerospace companies. t/Space was formed in 2004 to respond to NASA's plans to implement the President's Vision for Space Exploration. The company was one of eight winners in NASA's "Concept Exploration and Refinement" competition to advise the agency on the best architecture for Moon-Mars exploration and the best initial design for the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). The effort kicked off in August 2004 with a $3 million contract that was extended in March 2005 with another $3 million.
More Space Launch Companies
• Armadillo Aerospace is a small research and development team working on computer-controlled hydrogen peroxide rocket vehicles, with an eye towards manned suborbital vehicle development in the coming years. The team currently consists of a bunch of guys, a girl, and an armadillo named Widget. Our fearless leader, John Carmack, will lead us to space and, well, outer space. Please feel free to make yourselves at home and check out our journey.
• Blue Origin is developing vehicles and technologies that, over time, will help enable an enduring human presence in space. Our initial research efforts are focused on reusable liquid propulsion systems, low cost operations, life support, abort systems and human factors. We are currently working to develop a crewed, suborbital launch system that emphasizes safety and low cost of operations.
• E'Prime Aerospace Corporation The Eagle family of launch vehicles combines the proven technology of solid rocket manufacturing with updated state-of-the-art electronics and light weight materials. In addition, Eaglet, Eagle, S-I and S-II will be operated under cold launch conditions. Whereby, the rocket is propelled roughly 200 feet into the air, at which time, the first stage is ignited.
• Interorbital Systems is developing low-cost manned and unmanned orbital launch vehicles for commercial, governmental, and military applications. IOS launch vehicles can be launched from land using conventional methods or from the ocean using an ocean launch technique called 'Floating Launch'. Floating launch technology allows IOS to use the world's oceans as safe and cost-free spaceports. Interorbital Systems is currently licensed by the AST to launch from the Pacific ocean off the coast of Southern California. Future launches will take place from the Pacific waters around the Kingdom of Tonga.
• JP Aerospace A volunteer-based organization dedicated to achieving cheap access to space by building and flying VERY low cost, innovative systems.
• Kelly Space and Technology An engineering, design, and technology development company incorporated in April 1993 under the laws of the State of California for the purpose of developing a family of low cost, reusable, commercial sub-orbital and orbital launch vehicles.
• Lunar Rocket & Rover Co., Inc. was founded in 2002 by LRRC President Robert Kleinberger with the intention of bringing access to space and space exploration within the reach of industry and education institutions.
• Masten Space Systems is working to create inexpensive access to space by incrementally developing a series of launch vehicles with the reusability and reliability of airplanes. The key to this approach is creating a technology base that is both scalable and flexible. We believe that vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) is the only way to get the salability and flexibility to quickly and inexpensively develop the appropriate vehicles for all phases of space flight, from the eXtreme Altitude (XA) line of sub-orbital vehicles progressing to staged orbital launch vehicles and planetary exploration vehicles.
• Orion Propulsion, Inc. Whether you are searching for a partner to test your latest motor or for a company to help you research and design the next generation of propulsion systems, Orion Propulsion has the experience and knowledge to get the job done. Located just outside the "Rocket City" of Huntsville, Alabama, Orion is strategically positioned to tap the technical resources and heritage of some of America's greatest successful propulsion achievements. Steeped in areospace history yet on the forefront of space commercialization, Orion Propulsion is the perfect partner for your propulsion project.
• Space Launch Corporation was formed to develop and bring to market innovative products for the space transportation industry. We are located in Irvine, California, in the heart of southern California's aerospace community. We are focused primarily on the design, development, and testing of launch system technologies for the micro satellite market. We combine technical innovation and a well developed understanding of the market's requirements to provide our customers with compelling products and solutions at the lowest possible cost.
• TGV Rockets is an innovative start-up company pioneering a unique new class of reusable, low cost, piloted sub-orbital rocket. TGV Rockets will market vehicles and services to industry, researchers, military organizations and interested individuals. We intend to dominate the high altitude and sub-orbital research operations market, providing high value to customers and investors.
• UP Aerospace is your unique choice for low-cost space access. Never before has it been so affordable to launch significant-size payloads and sophisticated experiments into space. Complete payload recovery and a wide range of tracking, telemetry, and avionics options, make UP Aerospace the perfect solution for both business and educational / collegiate opportunities.

Virgin Galactic
Undertaking the challenge of developing space tourism for everybody, with privately built spaceships, modeled on the history-making SpaceShipOne craft.
www.virgingalactic.com
Space Adventures, Ltd.
Provides zero-gravity tours, fighter jet flights, and educational trips. Also accepts refundable deposits on future sub-orbital space flights.
www.spaceadventures.com
TransOrbital, Inc.
TrailBlazer lunar orbiter, authorized by U.S. for commercial flights to the Moon, to conduct lunar exploration and mapping, as well as delivery of scientific and personal items.
www.transorbital.net
Starchaser Industries Ltd
Engaged in the building of a spaceship capable of carrying three people into space.
www.starchaser.co.uk
Spacetopia Inc.
Features zero gravity flight program, journeys to the edge of space, and other adventure tours.
www.spacetopia.com
Wildwings
Features bird watching tours, deep sea exploration, expedition cruises, and more. Accepting bookings for sub-orbital space flights planned for 2001 onwards.
www.wildwings.co.uk
Space Tour
Promoting businesses around the world with its space tourism sweepstakes. Competing for the X PRIZE.
www.tour2space.com/index.htm

SPACE.com's Space Tourism Special Report
Part One: Where Only A Few Folks Have Gone Before tells the stories of the first space tourists as well as those of the private test pilots for the sub-orbital flights.
www.space.com/php/multimedia/earlyspacetourism
X PRIZE Cup (5)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Civilian_Space_Travel/X_PRIZE_Cup
ANSARI X PRIZE (10)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Civilian_Space_Travel/ANSARI_X_PRIZE
Virgin Galactic
Commercial space craft developed by Richard Branson's Virgin Group.
www.virgingalactic.com
Space Future
Outline why the goal of affordable travel to space for the general public is not only practical, but highly desirable.
www.spacefuture.com
da Vinci Project
Developing a reusable three-man spacecraft to be launched from a hot air balloon as a registered entry for the X PRIZE.
www.davinciproject.com
Canadian Arrow
Reusable sub-orbital spacecraft being designed and built in an attempt to capture the X PRIZE.
www.canadianarrow.com
Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace's goal is to bring human space flight into the arena of commercial business. Follow the progress of their Genesis I spacecraft, designed to be an inflatable habitat, which was launched into space on July 12, 2006.
www.bigelowaerospace.com
Shuttleworth, Mark (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Civilian_Space_Travel/Shuttleworth__Mark
SpaceShipOne@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Spacecraft/SpaceShipOne
Space Tour
Promoting businesses around the world with its space tourism sweepstakes. Competing for the X PRIZE.
www.tour2space.com/index.htm
Affordable to the Individual Space Flight
One vision of how affordable-to-the-private-individual space flight can be made a reality.
www.affordablespaceflight.com
National Spaceflight Training Center (NSTC)
Spaceflight education and astronaut training facility for the general public which will be located near the NASA Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake, Texas.
www.spaceflight-training.com
How Space Tourism Will Work
Looks at who is involved, what space accommodations will be like, and who will get to go.
www.howstuffworks.com/space-tourism.htm
Lifeboat Foundation
Nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, dedicated to providing solutions that will safeguard humanity from the growing threat of terrorism and technological cataclysm by building "lifeboats" in space.
www.lifeboat.com
Canyon Space Team
Dedicated nonprofit group in Washington state that aims to research civilian space flight.
www.canyonspaceteam.org
Project Colimbo - Amateur Space Lift Team
Advancing space exploration through the development of a low cost, low earth orbit payload delivery system.
www.colimbo.org
ProSpace Online
Nonprofit citizen's advocacy group with the mission "to open the space frontier for all people as rapidly as possible."
www.prospace.org/tiki-index.php
First Space Tourist: Dennis Tito's Flight to Station Alpha
A Space.com special report.
www.space.com/dennistito
Space Elevators, Space Hotels, and Space Tourism
Research paper describing a conceptual design for a transportation system to carry passengers into space.
www.spacefuture.com/archive/space_elevators_space_hotels_and_space_tourism....
America's Space Prize
America's Space Prize offers a $50 million reward for the design and operation of a spacecraft capable of completing two missions with five crew members into space before January 10, 2010.
www.bigelowaerospace.com/multiverse/space_prize.php

LiftPort Group (LPG)
Working to build a complete space transportation infrastructure with a focus on the space elevator.
www.liftport.com
Space Elevator Reference, The
Serves as a reference tool for those interested in exchanging ideas on the scientific, engineering, economic, and policy challenges inherent in constructing the solar systems first space elevator.
www.spaceelevator.com
Wikipedia: Space Elevator
Article about space elevators, the theoretical structures designed to transport material from a planet's surface into space.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
Elevator:2010
Features information about university and school level competitions for building working space elevator sub-scale prototypes.
www.elevator2010.org
Institute for Scientific Research: The Space Elevator
Describes their project, a space elevator consisting of a ribbon extending from Earth to space that can be ascended by mechanical means.
www.isr.us/SEHome.asp
Space Elevators Get a Lift
SpaceDaily article taking a look at the extraordinarily demanding yet feasible technological requirements for such a project.
www.spacedaily.com/news/future-01f.html
Ribbon to the Stars
Science News article about the potential of space elevators. From October of 2002.
www.sciencenews.org/20021005/bob9.asp
How Stuff Works: How Space Elevators Will Work
Introduction to the design and technology basics behind the huge base tower, cable, and space tether that could make mass space transit a reality in the 21st century.
www.howstuffworks.com/space-elevator.htm
Space Elevator: Next Stop, Earth Orbit
SPACE.com article outlining the key research areas that make a space elevator engineering fact rather than fancy. From December of 2000.
www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_elevator_001226.html
Space Elevators: An Advanced Earth-Space Infrastructure for the New Millennium
Publication based on findings from the Advanced Space Infrastructure Workshop on Geostationary Orbiting Tether "Space Elevator" Concepts, held in June 1999 at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
www.affordablespaceflight.com/spaceelevator.html
The Space Elevator Blog
The official blog of the 2006 Space Elevator Games.
www.spaceelevatorblog.com
Space Elevators, Space Hotels, and Space Tourism
Research paper describing a conceptual design for a transportation system to carry passengers into space.
www.spacefuture.com/archive/space_elevators_space_hotels_and_space_tourism....
LiftWatch.org
Space elevator news, references, and discussion.
www.liftwatch.org
Space Elevators
Looks at the second-generation space transportation systems: skyhooks and space elevators.
www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/1976.skyhook/1982.articles/elevate....
Audacious & Outrageous: Space Elevators
Article about how NASA scientists are seriously considering space elevators as a mass-transit system for the next century.
www.science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast07sep_1.htm
Virtual Beanstalk Project
An amateur design workshop for a near space elevator.
www.members.aol.com/beanstalkr/project
Space Elevator: 3rd Annual International Conference
Bringing together individuals and institutions interested in solving the challenges inherent in constructing the world's first space elevator.
www.isr.us/Spaceelevatorconference
Space Elevators: The Time for Laughing is Over
Article exploring the concept that has the potential to replace chemical based launch vehicles in the future. From May of 2003.
www.physicspost.com/articles.php?articleId=141&page=1
Space Elevator Games
Part of the 2006 X PRIZE Cup, the Space Elevator Games will challenge engineers to design a space elevator, a super-strong ribbon going from the surface of the Earth to a point beyond geosynchronous orbit.
www.xprizecup.com/attractions.php?sub=attractions_elevator_games

http://www.space-frontier.org/commercialspace/#comspaceanchor1