Posted on May 23, 2013, at 5:50 pm .
KIRUNA, Sweden (Spaceport Sweden PR) – Bookings are now open for January 30th, 2014 with airZeroG.
The availability is extremely limited, so book your ticket today via Spaceport Sweden – and get ready for space!
Spaceport Sweden is a proud reseller of the sensational flights of airZeroG. This is not only the single opportunity to fly in Europe, it is also the largest aircraft in the world license to perform this advanced flying.
During a full day you will be prepared and learn about simulating weightlessness in an Airbus A300, highlight it with the 2.5 hours experience of 12 parabolas in no gravity.
First public flight ever was performed in March 2013, next will be in June 2013 and 25th of October is still on sale!
Location is in France, Paris or Bordeaux-Merginác.
For more details, visit http://www.spaceportsweden.com/booking/ or contact us – booking@spaceportsweden.com
Posted on May 23, 2013, at 2:14 pm .
“I’m king of space!”
The intermittently reliable New York Post has this space tourism item out of France:
One lucky Cannes Film Festival-goer will get to go into outer space with Leonardo DiCaprio. Page Six has exclusively learned one of the auction prizes at tonight’s amfAR gala at Cannes will be a trip on Virgin Galactic’s space flight with “The Great Gatsby” star. Seats on the world’s first commercial space flight cost $200,000, but sources say this auction item was “priceless” because the highest bidder will be personally escorted by DiCaprio.
This will likely be a really good deal for DiCaprio. The bidder will send many times the cost of the ticket to ride with the star of “Titanic” (in which he died) and “The Great Gatsby” (ditto, I think). Mmmmm….I wonder if that’s really such a good idea…
The proceeds will be more than enough to cover Leo’s ticket to space, meaning that in all likelihood the flight won’t cost him a penny. It’s not that he couldn’t easily afford a ticket, but what’s the point of being a celebrity if you can’t take advantage of these deals. And it’s for a good cause, I guess.
Peter Diamandis achieved the same thing a few years back during X Prize Foundation’s “Radical Benefit for Humanity” gala. In that case, he was the celebrity that someone bid a lot of money to fly into space with aboard SpaceShipTwo. The proceeds were enough to cover his ticket.
Posted on May 23, 2013, at 12:56 pm .
Greetings from the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference in sunny La Jolla, Calif. I’m coming to you somewhat live from the upscale Hyatt Regency La Jolla.
Yes, I have made it out of the Mojave Desert for a few days — far away from the big bad winds that threaten to blow my house down, the dust storms that clog up my sinuses, and the suicidal rabbits that jump in front of my car. (I’m serious; it’s the most disturbing thing about that place. That…and all the meth labs.)
But, I digress.
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Posted on May 22, 2013, at 10:19 pm .
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL., May 22, 2013 (CASIS PR) – The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization managing research on board the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, today issued a solicitation for proposals in non-embryonic stem cell research.
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Posted on May 22, 2013, at 10:05 pm .
Editor’s Note: AEB — the Brazilian Space Agency — has published a Q&A with Pedro Henrique Doria Nehme, an agency trainees who recently won a trip to space aboard XCOR’s Lynx suborbital vehicle. The interview is reproduced below, translated from Portuguese via Google Translate.
Pedro Henrique Doria Nehme, 21, will go down in history. He will be the first Brazilian civilian to go to space. The future space tourist won the World Space Flight promotion, undertaken by KLM, which awarded the winner with a spot on the ship Lynx, operated by Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) of the Netherlands.
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Posted on May 22, 2013, at 12:57 pm .
Bothell, WA, 22 May 2013 (TUI PR) -- Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) has signed four NASA Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts to develop novel space technologies that could dramatically lower the cost of space exploration and development missions.
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Posted on May 21, 2013, at 10:14 am .
Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (NASA PR) – NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has signed a new partnership agreement with United Paradyne Corporation of Santa Maria, Calif., for use of the Hypergolic Maintenance Facility, or HMF.
The HMF previously was used during NASA’s Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs. Because of NASA’s transition from the shuttle to future commercial and government mission activities, this agreement allows NASA to preserve the unique facility capabilities for future spaceflight projects.
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Posted on May 20, 2013, at 3:40 pm .
Artist’s conception of a Bigelow lunar habitat. (Credit: Bigelow Aerospace)
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) – NASA and Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas are holding a media availability at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 23, to discuss the agency’s Space Act Agreement with the company for its insight on collaborating with commercial industry on exploration beyond Earth orbit. Journalists can participate in-person or by teleconference.
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Posted on May 20, 2013, at 3:34 pm .
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and XCOR Chief Pilot Rick Searfoss examine a mockup of the Lynx. (Credit: XCOR)
Via Clark Lindsey over at NewSpaceWatch, here’s the latest news from Hollywood:
Cinipix, a vertically integrated production, acquisition and distribution company headed by CEO Todd Slater (Ray, Raze), announced today that it has joined forces with Patricia A Beninati and Michael K Anderson’s Centerboro Productions to produce the sci-fi action film “Newcomers” and will send XCOR Aerospace’s commercial spacecraft, the Lynx, into space to shoot exclusive footage for the film.
The Lynx will be piloted by former NASA Astronaut Col. Richard A. Searfoss on an expedition marking the first Hollywood involvement for a privately owned space company, as well as first-of-its kind brand integration.
Specific plot details are being kept under wraps, however “Newcomers” will tell the story of a former NASA Astronaut who saves the Earth from an alien invasion with help from the commercial space industry (XCOR Aerospace).
Read the full story.
Posted on May 20, 2013, at 3:27 pm .
Looks like someone is flying an unmanned rocket through Mojave airspace on Tuesday.
Here are the translated NOTAMs for the Mojave Air and Space Port and Edwards Air Force Base on the flight:
!MHV 05/013 MHV AIRSPACE SEE EDW 05/005 UNMANNED ROCKET Effective from 1305211600-1305212359
!EDW 05/005 EDW AIRSPACE UNMANNED ROCKET .5 Nautical Mile Radius EDW268021/MHV 300 AGL/BLW Effective from 1305211600-1305212359.
That translate to Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 4:59 p.m. PDT.
My guess is that it’s a Masten flight, but I can’t say that for sure.
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