NASA’s Ames Research Center is preparing for a busy summer next year. Preparations are underway for the center to host the International Space University’s annual summer session. The Strasbourg-based school will bring together 100-125 students from throughout the world for a nine-week interdisciplinary space studies program. This session will mark the first time that it will be hosted at a NASA facility.
Now comes word that the Space Frontier Foundation will hold its annual NewSpace conference at Ames from July 17-20. During the event, the foundation will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
In addition, Ames is set to host the inaugural session of the new Singularity University. The school, which was announced by ISU Founder Peter Diamandis last month at the Singularity Summit in San Jose, CA, will undertake studies of….um….I don’t really know.
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Speaking with Swedish TV4, the ever-talkative and always optimistic Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson was repeatedly “hopeful” on the company’s prospects for launching space tourists from Kiruna:
“I am hopeful that quite soon after that we have started our space program from New Mexico…that hopefully the next base will be in Northern Sweden“.
The British billionaut- and space-priest-to-be was also vaguely bullish on the prospects of intercontinental travel via space:
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First Institute for Space Commerce to be based in the Isle of Man
Isle of Man Today
“The Manx Government successfully won a bidding war to secure the world’s first International Institute for Space Commerce (IISC), to be based at the International Business School, Douglas…
“Creation of the IISC project has been a joint initiative between the International Space University (ISU) based in Strasbourg, France, and the Manx Government. The ISU wanted to become more global and wanted to establish a number of associated international institutes around the world.”
