Space lab is go for launch (Image: Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic)
Editorial: “Right now, science needs the right stuff“
ON 26 FEBRUARY, two days after NASA’s space shuttle Discovery blasted off on its final flight, a plane loaded with researchers soared over Cape Canaveral, Florida, home to the shuttle’s launch pad, in preparation for a very different era of space science.
These lucky few were training to conduct experiments aboard a new generation of spacecraft built by commercial outfits like .
The vehicles’ primary purpose will be to ferry tourists to the edge of space, about 100 kilometres above Earth’s surface. But it is the…
