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Long-duration flights, such as a Mir residency, impose very serious psychological demands on...
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The Blackbird series planes: A12, YF12A and the SR-71 were developed as reconnaissance planes,...
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For the Aircraft research group, the Dryden Flight Research Center website could come in handy. ...
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Zero-Gravity Flights comprise the most widely accessibly method for the layman to experience zero...
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Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on...
Solve for X is a forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork. For thousands of years the imagination of storytellers has been a guiding light for people trying to change the world. In the last decade or two science fiction has almost fallen behind the work of...
 
WhiteKnightTwo & SpaceShipTwo, by Scaled Composites, was unveiled today, as shown in this...
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The Nova Scotia Spaceport site is more specifically planned for a site near Alder Point in Nova...
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A great video grasping an idea of the overall experience when travelling into space via Virgin...
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2001: Space Odyssey was released in 1968. Directed By Stanley Kubrick. Spaceships: The...
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Space Habitats are an alternative to planetary habitat. These are three approaches to space...
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For starters, check out two videos from the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference; one...
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Basically, space tourism is promoted as the ultimate adventure experience. Of the people polled, only 21 percent feel the need for a 'space hotel' but of those 21 percent, they would want to stay for up to 2 weeks.
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This article promotes space tourism as an experience that will change our perceptions in the same...
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Highlights space tourism menu: Lunar tourism, orbital tourism, sub-orbital tourism, and high...
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The main conclusion is that spaceplanes can reduce the cost of human transport to orbit...
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As space tourism enters the tourism market, efforts are made that it becomes profitable with upside and growth potiential. The Space Tourism Society aims to do just that by introducting logical goals and solutions to the private enterprise of space tourism.
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From the economics to design to viability, what are the physical and sociological mechanisms behind space tourism? A once govermental and scientific enterprise -- space travel -- is quickly becoming a private, pleasure-oriented commercial industry. Where did this come from and where is it going?
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"Over the next decade Space Adventures will fly more people to space than have made the journey since the dawn of the Space Age. Our clients will fly on suborbital flights, on voyages to Earth orbit and on historic expeditions that circumnavigate the moon. Flights will leave from spaceports both on Earth and in space, visiting private space...
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Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, which plans to offer...
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Space Agents are one of the avenues that someone may take to place a deposit for a Virgin Galactic flight. Some excerts from an interview with a certified space agent Kristy Adler: The main interest come from either adventure seeks ("been there, done that" crowd) or space fanactics. Mostly males have shown interest. Interest...
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Colonization is the activity of a species populating a place previously unihabited by that...
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Currently the moon offers the most logical celestial body for a colony. The purpose of which would...
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Helium 3 Mining: Fusion A Plan for Colonies on the Icy Moon Space Settlement: The Call of the High Frontier Bioterrorism May Spur Space Colonies Top Ten Reasons to Inhabit Outer Space ISS Science Looks to Mars Can People Go to Mars?
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The Anartic Conditions are considered to be the best analogue we have on earth to outer space and...
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The International Space Station while not a Colony (lacking trade and permanent residents) is an...
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Largest problem is lack of market volume Fear exists that $200,000 experience may be...
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Potential market for over $1 billion a year by the year 2021 70% would prefer from 3 days to 2...
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Crouch unveiled a preliminary set of suborbital findings from their research. Among them: The...
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Suborbital Spaceflight Price - $102,000 (includes $4,000 cancellation insurance) In an...
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Rocket technology has been critical in man's efforts to explore outerspace. There are some basic...
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In 1997, NASA published a report concluding that selling trips to space to private citizens could...
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The Gyroscope is a training device used by those preparing for an extended stay in space, but...
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As space tourism grows, various spaceports are envisioned in various locales. UNITED ARAB...
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Unmanned experimental plane by NASA X-43A/Pegasus Launch Getting Ready for Mach 10
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Neutral Buoyancy training in swimming pools & large tanks of water is one way people preparing...
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This is the intro video to the program titled "Big Blue Marble". A children's television...
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The 1960's piloted missions to the moon were reason for engineers to begin contemplating the future...
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ISS exterior video tour
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Definition A space station is defined as an "artificial structure designed for humans to live...
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Timeline of Stations Prior to the ISS CNN Article on the History of Space...
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The Pre-Launch Effort In the early 80's the International Space Station, or ISS, was originally...
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The Centrifuge is a piece of equipment that employs the semi-natural simulation of linear...
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Robert Bigelow, president of Bigelow Aerospace based in Las Vegas, NV. and owner of the Budget...
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Foster's previous work in transportation design made him a logical choice for designing the new...
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Record Spaceport America "The Foster + Partners and URS team has won an international...
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Back in Black
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Looking at how different materials and can inform how the spacestation will be transported into...
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New Global Spaceport Locations New Mexico isn't the only location in the US for a spaceport,...
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Bigelow Aerospace started a series of projects looking at alternative uses for space travel and...
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