Alan Boyel reports the latest on space tourism efforts by Blue Origin, SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace.
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New Mexico voters will go to the polls on April 3 to vote on whether to fund development of a spaceport.
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In the latest bid to rocket tourists into orbit, the secretive Blue Origin unveils a flying pod. Is your space voyage sooner than you think?
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American software developer Charles Simonyi, the next paying tourist to visit the International Space Station (ISS), will get two extra days in orbit – at no additional cost – thanks to a tricky bit of orbital mechanics.
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Despite failing to reach orbit, SpaceX has declared that the second flight of its Falcon 1 launcher was a success nevertheless. Unlike the first rocket, which exploded shortly after leaving the pad, the second one made it into space but failed to achieve orbit. Space-X officials claimed that most objectives were met.
SpaceX hopes to develop the Falcon 1 launcher and its successor, Falcon 9, as low-cost alternatives to traditional launch vehicles. The company is based in El Segundo, Calif.
SPACE FLORIDA PRESS RELEASE
Cape Canaveral, FL - March 19, 2007 - Space Florida, the new state agency charged with promoting Florida’s space industry, and Zero Gravity Corporation, announces the creation of the Florida Microgravity Education and Research Center, designed to facilitate Florida teacher and student space education and aerospace microgravity research expertise. The center will be the first-of-its kind by any state in providing the breadth and depth of academic and research capability to perform microgravity research and education programs.
To mark the start of the Center’s operations, a zero-gravity demonstration flight was held from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Central Florida. The flight included eight teachers from Brevard, Broward, Duval, Highlands, Santa Rosa and Seminole counties, and students (four in total) who ranged in age from 14 to 16.
The teachers and students were joined by Steve Koehler, President and Chief Executive Officer, Space Florida; Jeanine Blomberg, Interim Commissioner of Education, State of Florida; Monesia Brown, Head of the Agency for Workforce Innovation; John Adams, President of Enterprise Florida; and Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Chief Executive and Co-Founder, Zero Gravity Corporation.
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Noted science fiction writer Ben Bova has an op-ed in the Naples News about physicist Stephen Hawking’s upcoming micro-gravity flight with Zero-G. He sees flights like this as the beginning of man’s evolution in space.
“The old adage is wrong: The meek will inherit not the Earth, but the gentler low-gravity environments of space,” Bova writes.
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Will China win the race to explore and colonize the moon? NASA chief Mike Griffin recently warned Congress that it could be if the space agency doesn’t get more money. The Houston Chronicle report is here.
Space was once seen by many as an essential, inevitable part of humanity's future, a vision that has faded over time. Nader Elhefnawy examines how changes in society have shaped how the public views the human exploration and settlement of space.
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Is a conflict brewing between space tourism and environmentalists?
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