NASAspaceflight.com

NASASpaceFlight.com

URL	http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	News
Owner	Chris Bergin
Created by	Chris Bergin
Launched	6 May 2004
Alexa rank	96,636 (November 2011[update])[1]
Current status	Online

NASASpaceFlight.com is a website that is devoted to manned and unmanned spaceflight news. The site focuses on the engineering aspects of spaceflight. News coverage is provided around the clock, with editors present in all of the leading space faring nations. NASASpaceFlight.com has had stories picked up by news organizations such as MSNBC^[2], USA Today^[3], The New York Times^[4], and Popular Science^[5]. It is run by owner and managing editor Chris Bergin.

Mission

NASASpaceFlight.com is dedicated to expanding the public's awareness and respect for the space flight industry, which in turn is reflected in the many thousands of space industry members on the site, ranging from NASA to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, United Space Alliance and the commercial space flight arena.^{[citation needed]}

History

The site was conceived from an idea between Chris Bergin and three NASA and United Space Alliance managers, who wanted to see a news media site cover space flight (specifically Shuttle, VSE and NASA) from an engineering standpoint, concentrating on breaking news and documentation that involved the communication between the engineers and managers and the general public who were interested.

The website went online in the summer of 2005, just before the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission (STS-114) following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

NASASpaceFlight.com now has a team of 20 writers and web developers.^{[citation needed]}

Content available to paying subscribers

L2 is a subscription database of documentation, graphics, data, information and video that, as of July 2009^[update], is over 4 terabytes large. Unique information such as internal NASA memos, Flight Readiness Review documents, and Space Shuttle flight plans are added daily.^[6]

References

1. ^ "Nasaspaceflight.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nasaspaceflight.com. Retrieved 2011-11-02. 
2. ^ Boyle, Alan (7 december 2006). "Security-conscious NASA tightens e-mail policy". MSNBC. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16095705/. Retrieved 6 August 2009. "NASASpaceFlight.com, an independent online news outlet, reported that..." 
3. ^ Watson, Traci (29 May 2007). "NASA designs a 'roller coaster' escape". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-05-28-nasa-roller-coaster-escape_N.htm. Retrieved 6 August 2009. "An illustration of the new escape feature was first posted on the website NASASpaceflight.com." 
4. ^ Schwartz, John (6 October 2006). "Debris Damage to Shuttle Is Found". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E6DF1230F935A35753C1A9609C8B63. Retrieved 6 August 2009. "The existence of the hole was first reported yesterday on the Web site nasaspaceflight.com." 
5. ^ Handelman, Stephen (1 March 2007). "Coasting to Safety". Popular Science. http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2007-03/coasting-safety. Retrieved 6 August 2009. "Chris Bergin, editor of the independent Web site NASASpaceFlight.com, recently unearthed..." 
6. ^ "L2 – The Premier Space News Ticket" (Press release). NASAspaceflight.com. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/L2/. Retrieved 6 August 2009. ^{[self-published source?]}

External links

• Official site