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This is an interview with Steve Landeen who is the Executive Director of Spaceport America. Yet another great interview that talks about the United States first purpose built spaceport capable of working with both vertical and horizontal lifting vehicles. Yet another great interview from the X PRIZE Foundation’s 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge!

This was a groundbreaking announcement made at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. Not only will New Mexico be the state hosting Spaceport America, but it will also be carrying Virgin Galactic as well as the newly announced vehicle from Armadillo Aerospace in cooperation with the Rocket Racing League. Check out the coverage, this is a world changing announcement.

SpaceX is the only private company to ever reach earth orbit with their Falcon 1 rocket. This is the FULl 40 minute webcast from about T-10 minutes until well after SECO. We didn’t want to cut out the chorus of cheering after the SpaceX crew realized that they had just made history!

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.