Monthly Archive for September, 2007Page 5 of 11

Space tourism comes to Pasco County, Florida

Few would ever guess what's inside a tiny office building on Grand Boulevard in Pasco County. There is still no sign, but the company which recently opened its doors is called 4Frontiers, a consulting firm specializing in planning for long term habitation in space.
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Virgin Galactic: Posh Space Center, Big Carbon Footprint

The world’s first private space port may be an environmentally friendly piece of architecture, but the carbon footprint left behind by the rockets taking tourists into orbit will be enormous.
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Bucks County Firm to take on final frontier

Bucks County Pennsylvania could become a hub of commercial space travel, thanks to a partnership between Virgin Galactic and the NASTAR training center in Southampton.
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The Armchair Traveler: Tourist’s guide to space

A brief review of “The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist’s Guide,” a new book by Neil F. Comins.
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New Mexico Spaceport Designs Unveiled

Architects and officials have unveiled the planned design for Spaceport America’s 100,000-square-foot (9,300-square-meter) main terminal.
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A giant leap for Foster - Building

For Norman Foster, this was the final frontier. The architect with a passion for aircrafts and flying has won an international competition to design a spacecraft launch pad in the New Mexican desert.
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Virgin Galactic spaceship designer reveals changing ideas

SpaceShipTwo designer Burt Rutan has revealed some possible design changes to his company’s suborbital tourism vehicle.
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Do you want to travel to space? 1st stop: Sarasota

Ryan Hilton, co-owner of Admiral Travel Gallery of Sarasota and Lakewood Ranch, is among 47 exclusive agents worldwide selling Virgin Galactic’s commercial flights into space.
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For Space Tourists, It’s Training Time

The first 100 Virgin Galactic passengers are to report to a private training institute in Pennsylvania known as NASTAR this month to undergo zero gravity training.
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Space tourism in limbo, suit says

A luxury vacation firm contracted to market and reserve flights on Rocketplane Kistler’s planned suborbital space plane has filed a $3.4 million lawsuit against the Oklahoma City company, claiming Kistler has stopped all work on the project.
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