The fourth space tourist will be Japanese citizen Daisuke Enomoto. He will pay $20 million to US company Space Adventures to fly on a 10-day mission to the International Space Station in October 2006. He will travel aboard a Soyuz TMA spacecraft, launched on a Soyuz booster from Baikonur with ISS expedition crew 14.
Source: Flight International
Orbital launch pioneer SpaceX is being contracted by the American space agency NASA to develop a so-called “US Deorbit Vehicle” that can safely return the International Space Station to Earth via controlled re-entry.
BAE Systems has completed its acquisition of Ball Aerospace, with the move further strengthening its US business presence.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has retired its Mars helicopter Ingenuity after the craft suffered damage upon landing.
