| URL | http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ |
|---|---|
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | News |
| Owner | Chris Bergin |
| Created by | Chris Bergin |
| Launched | 6 May 2004 |
| Alexa rank | 73,712 (January 2012[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.
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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.
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.
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]