Can Your Airport Become a Spaceport (AIAA Paper)

Paper presented by Brian S. Gulliver, PE and G. Wayne Finger, PhD at AIAA conference in 2010.

'Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen, and Blasting into Space' by Sir Richard Branson

Excellent book by Sir Richard Branson about the history of aviation -- from balloons to spacecraft. Highly recommended!

Virgin Galactic Majestic Flight Showreel - Long Version

The Private-Sector Space Race Takes Off

The private sector space race takes off. (Central Florida Future)

These Futuristic Planes Will Get You From NYC to Beijing in Two Hours by Alex Bauer (ryot.org)

These Futuristic Planes Will Get You From NYC to Beijing in Two Hours by Alex Bauer (ryot.org).

Seeing the Future of Space Clearly

Seeing the future of space clearly by William Pomerantz of Virgin Galactic. 

How The Beijing To New York Flight Will Just Take 2hrs | MCrunch

How The Beijing To New York Flight Will Just Take 2hrs | MCrunch

Space Transportation

Good reference material about space transportation from US Department of Commerce. 

Britain Plans to Build a Commercial Spaceport

Britain plans to build a spaceport according to an article in 'The Guardian'.

Airbus + space shuttle = budget space flights?

Article in 'Australian Business Traveller' about a design for an Airbus aircraft that would carry a point-to-point suborbital spacecraft.

Hypothetical Spaceliners (SPLOID)

Really cool pics of hypothetical spaceliners in 'SPLOID'.

"A Roadmap for Suborbital Commercial Passenger Spaceflight" by Walter Peeters

This compelling article, written by Walter Peeters, appeared in 'New Space' in 2013.

"Thoughts about Transportation while over the Atlantic" by Amnon Govrin

Nice essay about the wonders of point-to-point suborbital transportation by fellow blogger Amnon Govrin of "Spacepirations."

"Coming soon: Flights from New York to Beijing in just 2 hours!" Article by Patrick Winn

Article by Patrick Winn about point-to-point sub-orbital flights. 

Up: the story behind Richard Branson's goal to make Virgin a galactic success (Wired Magazine Article)

Article about Virgin Galactic in Wired Magazine. Well worth reading!

FastForward Project - Top 7 Issues Facing Spaceports to Enable Point-to-Point Operations

Top 7 issues facing spaceports to enable point-to-point operations according to the FastForward Project.

National Geographic's "Spaceport America - MegaStructures" (documentary)

Boeing's X-51A WaveRider (Scramjet)

"Spaceport Associates" Site - All about Commercial Space Transportation!

Kudos to Derek Webber for maintaining an excellent site ("Spaceport Associates"), which is loaded with lots of useful resources about commercial space transportation. 

"Fast Forward Project" - Excellent Resource about Point-to-Point Suborbital Transportation

From the Fast Forward Project website:

"The FastForward Project is a diverse, ad-hoc industry study group focused on common issues related to future global, high-speed point-to-point transportation (including passenger travel and fast package delivery). The all-volunteer group is broadly supported across the aerospace industry, with key members from flight system providers (both entrepreneurial and traditional aerospace hardware companies), future operators, government agencies, commercial aerospaceports, academic organizations, and specialist consultants. Members have backgrounds ranging from traditional aviation to space applications.

The FastForward Study Project is focused on examining pre-competitive issues and questions key to understanding the technical and economic viability of future high-speed global transportation services based on either atmospheric or exo-atmospheric flight. These two emerging markets are related, and both share the goal of drastically reducing point-to-point travel times between distance points on the globe to a matter of hours."

Integrating Spacecraft into the National Airspace System

Paper by Andrew Duncan, of Embry-Riddle, identifies challenges of integrating spacecraft into the National Airspace System.