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 by Clyde Hughes Washington DC (UPI) Oct 09, 2019
An exploratory division of U.S. aviation giant Boeing will make a $20 million investment for a stake in space tourism company Virgin Galactic, officials said Tuesday. Boeing's venture arm HorizonX will make the investment, which gives the Chicago-based company a minority stake in Virgin Galactic and will boost the latter's valuation to $1.5 billion. "This investment brings together two companies with extensive experience in the space industry," Boeing said in a statement. "Virgin Galactic is a pioneer of commercial human space flight and is the first and only company to have put humans into space in a vehicle built for commercial service. "A part of every U.S. manned space program, Boeing serves as NASA's prime contractor for the International Space Station and is preparing the new, reusable, Starliner space capsule for launch to the ISS." Officials said the partnership has long been in the planning stages. "Our teams have been talking for quite some time now," Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides told CNBC. "The broader capabilities of Boeing are unmatched in mobility and experience in human spaceflight, so we're over the moon about this partnership." Virgin Galactic said it has more than 600 customers ready to fly into space and interest from another 3,000. Virgin Galactic said this summer it was on schedule to start flying into space next year, and has already conducted test flights to the edge of space. A test in 2014 killed one of the pilots. Source: United Press International
Space Launch System mock up arrives at Kennedy for testing Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 NASA's Pegasus Barge arrived at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to make its first delivery to Kennedy in support of the agency's Artemis missions. The upgraded 310-foot-long barge arrived Sept. 27, 2019, ferrying the 212-foot-long Space Launch System rocket core stage pathfinder. Weighing in at 228,000 pounds, the pathfinder is a full-scale mock-up of the rocket's core stage and will be used to validate ground support equipment and demonstrate it can be in ... read more
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