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On October 4th, 2004 SpaceShipOne was the first private vehicle to make it in to space and after a second successful flight won the Ansari X-Prize.

On July 28th, 2008 WhiteKnightTwo rolled out on the runway with SpaceShipTwo getting ready for a 2009 rollout. These new crafts will enable for the first time in human history privatized space travel. Anyone, you included, will be able to reach low earth orbit and experience weightlessness. This will forever change the course of human exploration.

This is the story of Virgin Galactic.

With Virgin Galactic rolling out WhiteKnightTwo on Monday we thought it would be fun to highlight the Virgin Galactic experience. This animation shows what it will be like to takeoff, drop from WhiteKNightTwo, blast in to space aboard SpaceShipTwo, feel what it is like in microgravity for 4 to 5 minutes and then land again safely on the ground.

Virgin Galactic is on the verge of forever changing the face of human space flight. Yesterday they rolled out EVE which is one of the two ships needed to send private astronauts in to space for $200,000 per ticket. While that may sound like a lot keep in mind that current tickets to space cost around $25,000,000 so we’re on the right track.

After the shuttle retires in 2010 NASA will be moving on to the Constellation program which promises to bring humans back to the moon and on to Mars. This animation depicts what it will look like when the Orion module breaks from the lunar lander as well as a new lunar rover. I believe the new spacesuits are going to be blue though, so this is a touch dated.

The THEMIS mission looks at our Northern Lights to try and find where they come from, an update on the Phoenix Lander and making space robots more intelligent, a new resource to see thousands of stunning images from NASA and should we repurpose the $156 billion dollar International Space Station to explore additional space on [...]

We’re starting a new segment on SpaceVidcast that will be highlighting a different space agency each week. Since NASA is by far the largest agency of them all, we’ll start here and show you where NASA came from, how much it spends, and how it looks on the surface in this brief 3 minute overview. NASA is so complex that we could spend hours talking about all the different areas, and we encourage you to continue the conversation in the comments section. Add your cool NASA stats or feelings there!

In 2010 the Space Shuttle retires to be replaced with the new Constellation Program. Constellation consists of the Ares I and Ares V rockets and the Orion crew module. This animation depicts what it will be like with the Ares V heavy load rocket carrying up the new lunar lander and the Ares I rocket launching Orion in to orbit to rendezvous with the lander with a safe landing on the moon.

When NASA spun the Deep Impact spacecraft around to capture shots of the Earth, they were able to capture some of the most stunning pictures I have personally ever seen. Videos like this make the world seem a very, very small place.

NASA needs your urine for Orion testing, a stewardess wins a flight to space from KitKat and CATS is gaining traction in our news. Buzz Aldrin is making a buzz about science fiction and our youth.
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On Wednesday, July 16th at 12:21am CDT a Zenit-3SL rocket launched via the ocean based Odyssey launch platform. The Zenit-3SL rocket carried EchoStar XI into space while the Block DM-SL upper stage inserted it into geosynchronous transfer orbit. The final location for EchoStar XI will be 110 degrees West Longitude.

The nuts and bolts that hold the space shuttle to the launch pad and prevent it from tipping over are getting an upgrade for STS-125.

While I have been a regular guest on KSTP’s Twin Cities Live in the past, I have never been on to chat about SpaceVidcast… Until now!

On July 14th at 3:18pm CDT Cariann and I chatted with John Hanson and Rebekah Wood about SpaceVidcast, where we are and where we are going. As always it is a TON of fun to be on that show. The atmosphere is kept light, the topics are fun and there is always something interesting going on. Heck, in this show alone they had an electric motorcycle that looked like a green jellybean and they cooked up a serving of watermelon pie. It sure sounds gross, but holy cow did it taste good!

Originally slated to launch on July 4th, 2008 this Arianespace Ariane-5 rocket ended up launch on July 7th, 2008 at 6:47pm local time in French Guiana.

Twenty-seven minutes after its launch the rocket released ProtoStar 1 the first satellite for the new U.S.-based telecommunications company ProtoStar. Eight minutes later, the rocket released a BADR-6 satellite for Arabsat, the 21-nation telecommunications group of the Arab League, that is designed for direct television broadcasting to the Middle East and North Africa.

In this action packed, adventuresode of SpaceVidcast we cover the incredibly dangerous EVA that the Russians just completed. Exploding bolts, knives in space and ripping through thermal foam are just a few things they had to do on this unscheduled EVA. The largest solar panel installation in the US is going in Florida, and guess what space agency will be using it. We have found a star that likes to put out. Finally we chat about you, space and if you would go to space with a 1/70 chance of total crew and vehicle loss.

And joining us live via Skype is James Smith of the Office of Tomorrows Mars. We chat about re-starting the ecosystem on Mars to make it a habitable planet.

This morning at 6:05am CDT Benjamin was on KSTP AM-1500’s Willie and Jay show talking about SpaceVidcast.com. We chatted about what SpaceVidcast is, how much it costs and where we go from here.