Blue Origin Launches and Lands First Rocket This Year
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3y ago
For years now, there has been a quiet ‘Space Race’ taking part. Though this time the development and the competitive challenge seems to be the state versus the private company. While we have many major space entrepreneurs getting involved, including platforms like SpaceX, we also have groups like Blue Origin. Blue Origin is a deeply ambitious company that has always been about trying to make the dream of ‘space tourism’ a reality; now, it looks like they might have managed to do so. Indeed, recent reports show that Blue Origin was capable of launching and landing their first space flight for ..read more
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Virgin Galactic Rolls Out Space Suits for Future Travelers
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3y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, it might finally be time. After years of PR advertising and promotions, it looks like the much-anticipated Virgin Galactic project might be nearing actual completion. While there is still some way to go on the project to get everything ready for launch, a new milestone has been reached in the form of the space suits for travelers who are taking part in the process. The company has been working to get every last detail and piece of information in place, and a crucial part of the process was the space suits. Now, these are in place and ready to be used across the board as ..read more
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Giant Space Tourist Balloon Launching from Kennedy Space Center
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3y ago
According to the plans of an upstart company, soon people will be able to move about 10,000ft. up to the stratosphere and get a stunning, panoramic view of the earth without any aid from a towering rocket. Space Perspective, the company aspiring to achieve this goal within the next few years, revealed that it will start testing Spaceship Neptune from 2021 itself. Spaceship Neptune is a humungous 650-foot vehicle that comprises of a balloon and has a capsule attached to it. The launch site of this equipment would be the former Shuttle Landing Facility under Kennedy Space Center that has been o ..read more
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Giant Balloon to Hoist Space Tourists
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3y ago
Go back twenty years, and the concept of ‘space tourism’ was still reserved for fiction novels and fantasy dreamers. It’s for that reason that many people have long given up the hope of ever seeing a true form of ‘space tourism’ in their lifetimes. However, movements in the last few years from major movers in the industry means that, for the first time, we might actually have a realistic chance at seeing commercial spaceflight. A startup company that is working on a giant balloon to propel tourists up into space from the Kennedy Space Center has started to make progress on its invention. This ..read more
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Tom Cruise Filming Movie on International Space Station
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4y ago
The joys of being a film star means that many of the day-to-day rules of life tend to not really matter to you. However, one aspect of life where being a movie star often becomes quite invasive is the privacy side of things. Star in a few movies, and it’s likely you won’t be able to move a few meters without the paparazzi wanting a shot of you. A fine example of this, though, stems from the fact that Tom Cruise has been spotted working with NASA and is rumored to go to the International Space Station on a new movie. The movie is being worked on at the moment, even during COVID-19 lockdown. Cr ..read more
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Axiom Plans Apartment Attached to International Space Station
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4y ago
While many of our minds are focused on the problems very much attached to planet earth at the moment, there is still plenty of activity happening ‘above ground’. For example, the International Space Station is still alive and kicking. While we are only hearing about things going on with the present Coronavirus outbreak, most industries are still plugging along as best they can in the present circumstances. One example of this comes from Axion, which intends to launch a space tourism program. The aim would be to fly up people to the ISS and have them stay at their exciting new apartment design ..read more
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Major Milestones for SpaceX And Virgin Orbit
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4y ago
  For years now, the ‘space race’ has been slowly heating up. While this time it’s between private enterprise as opposed to government-sponsored, it’s no less exciting. Today, the big battle that we often see in the industry stems from SpaceX and Virgin Orbit. The two companies have been competing with each other, though not exclusively, for a little while. We’re expecting to see big movement from both of the companies as we move into 2020. One thing to note is that both SpaceX and Virgin Orbit have ‘major milestones’ to try and hit this year. In fact, SpaceX expects to hit a major milestone ..read more
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Virgin Galactic 1st to Play Nice on NYSE
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4y ago
  For years, talk of space tourism has been something confined to cinema and fiction. Seen as something our future grandchildren would get to experience, today the goal of making space tourism has become that bit closer. This comes after Virgin Galactic completed its merger with Chamath Palihapitiya’s various ventures. The merger was put together, and it means that the Virgin Galactic firm will now be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. They will trade under the ticker symbol SPCE, and will now be able to see investment coming from one of the biggest stock exchanges in the world. The spacec ..read more
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Virgin Galactic Gateway Spaceport Now Ready for Business
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4y ago
One of the best things about the Virgin Galactic Gateway spaceport is that the project has never subsided. It’s never been put on the backburner – it has stayed true to the ambition of actually becoming reality. Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space is now ‘open for business’ as they say. This will help Virgin Galactic get a nice kick in revenue, as the company will b able to bring in some extra investment from the space tourism facility. It’s going to be a major part of their revenue building scheme, with the new spaceport over at Upham, N.M, being based in a hanger that will eventually provide V ..read more
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NASA Considering Selling Space Tourism Tickets
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5y ago
The world(s) beyond our own will, for the most part, remain a mystery for many years to come. Many people believe in the art of space travel, and hope that we can continue to see it becoming increasingly normalized as time goes on. While the world may have switched off from the idea of space travel being a mainstream objective come the ‘Space Race’ of the past, today commercialized space travel is still something that gets a lot of research investment. And that could soon result in the ability of NASA selling ‘space tourism’ tickets to those who wish to go up and take part. NASA seeming ..read more
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