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Affordable Space Tourism?
2009-07-28 07:00:00 Did you dream about becoming an astronaut when you were a kid? Maybe you watched a Space Shuttle launch on TV, or saw cartoons like the Jetsons or Marvin the Martian and thought that you, too, would travel into outer space. Well, now you can. In fact, any one can make this momentous journey with
Is space tourism safe?
2008-03-24 18:17:00 From DailyStuff from HowStuffWorks.com: On Sept. 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari, a telecommunications entrepreneur, became the first female space tourist and the fourth space tourist overall. Sometime in 2009, George Whitesides, the executive director of the National Space Society,
Will Interorbital Dominate The Space Tourism Industry?
2008-02-26 04:23:00 (Hat Tip: Spaceports, Image Credit: Interorbital)So far the biggest contender in the upcoming space tourism industry is probably Virgin Galactic, whose early entrance (plus safety features) may give it a "Google" edge over its rivals.However a new entrant to the field is promising to make its rides more attractive by not only offering up to a weeks worth of weightlessness (for $2.5 million) but by also down playing the major players in the upcoming space arena.(Interorbital) Several companies are currently offering seats on manned suborbital joyrides. Some rocketplane developers are advertising two-hour suborbital trips into space. Beware! An actual suborbital rocketplane ride to the edge of space and back lasts only 15 minutes. Most of the two-hour suborbital trip will be spent cramped inside the rocketplane's cockpit being hauled up to launch altitude. And then, after the completion of the 15-minute suborbital roller coaster ride, the passengers will have experienced only a few m...
By: Colony Worlds
Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo by Richard Branson
2008-01-26 06:14:00 Virgin Galactic founder, Sir Richard Branson, unveiled the new spaceflight system, composed of the WhiteKnightTwo carrier plane and the SpaceShipTwo spacecrafts. The SpaceShipTwo spacecraft and its WhiteKnightTwo carrier will begin initial tests this summer to shakedown the novel spaceflight system designed by aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan and his firm Scaled Composites.
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India To Enter Space Tourism Market
2008-01-13 04:08:00 With the space race heating up, several countries are exploring unorthodox ways of keeping their space programs afloat in order to finance their trip to the stars.While other nations depend upon the "generous" donations of tax paying citizens, India is looking towards space tourism to help keep its solar dreams alive.(Hindustan Times) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) seems to be in an expansive mood, the way it proposes to take potential space tourists on short duration sojourns in low earth orbit. The Isro Chairman, G. Madhavan Nair, thought aloud on this the other day and reportedly told the media that “well-heeled tourists” — read immensely rich wannabe astronauts — could go for week-long spins on board an Isro spacecraft in eight years’ time. The idea apparently is to use the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) to loft a couple of space tourists into a 400-km orbit around Earth.By India opening up its facilities towards the private sector the go...
By: Colony Worlds
Space Tourism
2008-01-07 17:46:00 The going rate for a civilian space flight is $30 million, but that will soon change. A spaceport (space airport) is under construction in New Mexico, and is slated to launch tourist flights by 2010. Companies like Virgin Galactic (taking reservations for $200,000 a seat) and Bigelow Aerospace are racing to start trips and construct hotels. But a family vacation to the moon is still a long way away. The United States, European Union, and Russian governments are involved in the effort, ensuring security and varying degrees of oversight. With the private sector poised to enter the final frontier, the question is whether this radical new development will redefine the way we explore and research space.
Russia Backing Out Of Space Tourism?
2008-01-02 22:31:00 Despite pioneering the "newspace" movement (with the help of Space Adventures), it looks as if the nation responsible for getting us into space has decided to push space tourism to the wayside--at least for now.(Physorg.com) "It has to do with international agreements that stipulate that from 2009 the (ISS) crew must be made up of six people if Japanese and European scientific modules are launched," said Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov. "In this case there will be no room for space tourists," Perminov told a news conference, adding that space tourism making use of Russian vessels and the ISS would therefore be "rather problematic". "I'm afraid that from 2009, tourism as we see it today may be discontinued," he said. With the space shuttle scheduled to retire early, many nations are looking towards Russia to transport their astronauts to and from the International Space Station (or ISS), hence the reason for placing space tourism on the back burner.While this may be a setback for S...
By: Colony Worlds
Florida Space Tourism: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Delayed Until January
2007-12-11 22:36:00 Same Technical Issue Delays Launch AgainAfter the delay on Thursday, Space Shuttle Atlantis was set for a launch on Saturday. However the technical issue that scrubbed the launch on Thursday was again the cause of the delay yet again.The rescheduled launch is said to happen no earlier than January 2nd 2008 at 5.41am.The delay should give a significant amount of time for NASA Engineers to investigate the problem.See AlsoNASA Space Shuttle Official WebsiteClick here to read more.
The Space Tourism Industry Can Really Make Money
2007-04-30 00:06:00 So far, only one craft has flown in space, sending test pilots to the final frontier at an expense of $25 million-plus to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize. Market right now doesn't show the prospects that were expected by the investors in the space tourism industry. But this doesn't mean that people in the real world don't have any respect for this industry. Space Tourism is not aimed at "space geeks" only. This seems the way it is because people in the real world can't afford the million dollars ride into the space and it looks like they are less bothered about what is going on in the space tourism industry........
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New Mexico to Build a Spaceport for Space Tourism
2007-04-06 22:00:00 From Gizmodo: Apparently space travel for the common man is closer than we thought, at least according to one county in New Mexi...
Space tourism to be fashion's final frontier
2006-12-09 10:23:01 From CNN.com - Science & Space: LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- You've booked your seat on the spaceship and passed the med... |
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