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• First Resort In Space Scheduled For 2012

  
  Fun is 2 cool — Authority: 119
  A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project. The spacecraft which will carry resort goes via a space tourism spacecraft which will be designed to ...
  10 hours ago

• Big Questions: Spaceflight

  
  Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line — Authority: 98
  In one of my earliest memories, Im about four years old, at nursery school , sitting on the floor looking up at what must have been a small black and white television sitting on a table. The teachers were all terribly excited, and we little kids were always happy to watch television. But this wasnt Sesame Street. ...
  17 hours ago

• New Ion Engine Could Reach Mars In 39 Days

  
  Future Transportation — Authority: 132
  Recently, as the world celebrated the first lunar landing, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins both called for NASA to make Mars its next goal. But the chemical propulsion system that took them to the moon would take six months, at least, to get a man to Mars and cost hundreds of billions of dollars. ...
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• Orbiting Space Hotel to Open in 2012

  
  Sierra Blogging Post — Authority: 432
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  3 days ago

• Virgin and Chinese Space Concepts

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 123
  From the recent Space Exposition in South Korea, some photo concepts from Virgin Galactic’s potential micro-satellite launcher and the future Chinese Spacelab and cargo module: …       … Branson got a huge influx of cash from the Saudis to alter the WK2 to carry the launcher: ...
  3 days ago

• The knowledge and wisdom of two deep-space voyagers

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 444
  A summary of the how the two Voyager space probes have expanded our knowledge of the solar system’s outer planets . How then to summarise Voyager? As Stone observes “I felt that we were all in the tradition of Galileo. He was the first to see the moons of Jupiter and the first to apply an instrument to ...
  4 days ago

• Would You Like the Zero-Gravity Suite?

  
  Offbeat Guides Blog — Authority: 117
  If the world doesn’t end in 2012, there’ll be another event for earthlings to look forward to: the opening of the galaxy’s first ever “space hotel.” That’s pretty epic, you guys.According to Reuters, the Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort have confirmed that they’re on track ...
  4 days ago

• Dennis Wingo: Beyond Augustine II

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 123
  Private space advocate Dennis Wingo posted an article yesterday about how the “not shuttle-c” concept of a NASA side-mounted heavy-lift launch vehicle (SD-HLLV to the space cadets like me) and space entrepreneurs together can make the Moon a very profitable enterprise: Dennis Wingo: In August of this year I ...
  4 days ago

• The Future Is Now At Mojave Spaceport

  
  Autopia — Authority: 729
  For aviation geeks, hanging out at an airport watching airplanes is just something you do. Some airports are better than others. JFK used to have the Concorde and it’s still great, along with LAX if you like 747s. But few airports compare to KMHV, also known as Mojave Airport, where the future is now. The Mojave ...
  5 days ago

• Back Holes as an Energy Source ?!?!?!?

  
  WTFoodge — Authority: 142
  So these two dudes from Kansas State University Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland have pretty much proposed an idea that would enable us to use black holes as an energy source for interstellar travel. And whats even crazier is that it obeys the laws of physics. I dont know anything when it comes to physics or things ...
  5 days ago

• To the Moon!

  
  50 Records — Authority: 123
  An architect company based out of Barcelona has begun production on the Galactic Suite Space Resort. Thats right in 2012 you might be able to take a vacation in space for only a mere 4.4 million dollars. The hefty price includes a three-night stay at the hotel, which is in space, and an eight-week training course ...
  5 days ago

• are2:Mission(s) to Mars

  
  PIXLTIGR — Authority: 428
  are2 : Mission(s) to Mars
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• Beer, the final frontier

  
  IMAO — Authority: 618
  Young Einstein was right: e=mc 2 is the formula for splitting beer atoms I’m a big fan of space exploration. Whether it’s because I truly believe that it’s to the benefit of all mankind that we push the boundaries of exploration, or if it’s just because it reminds me of Star Trek, I don’t know. ...
  6 days ago

• Space Resorts For The Mega-Rich Set To Debut By 2012?

  
  Vagabondish — Authority: 523
  © Galactic Suite Competing directly with Richard Branson’s nascent space tourism ambitions, a Barcelona-based firm says they’re within a couple years of launching a full-fledged space resort. The Galactic Suite Space Resort will take mega-rich tourists into orbit for three nights at a time, with round trips ...
  6 days ago

• Space Hotel to Open in 2012

  
  CheapOair Travel Blog, Cheap Flights Blog, Air Travel Blog | CheapOair — Authority: 492
  The Galactic Suite Space Resort plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012. The Barcelona-based project will cost guests 3 million euro ($4.9 million) for a three-night stay at the hotel, which includes an eight-week training course on a tropical island. ...
  6 days ago

• If you’ve run out of vacation options…

  
  TJs Things — Authority: 127
  There is always Space for a 4 and a half million dollar stay . You know, if you have absolutely nothing else to do with that kind of money. LOL. Tagged: recession?, space travel
  1 week ago

• Spanish Space Hotel Still A Go For 2012

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 755
  Intergalactic Suites, the $4.4 million per 3-night space hotel (you better change the sheets!) that we first reported on back in 2007 , is apparently still a go for a 2012 grand opening. Im skeptical . Also, on the waiting list. God Im rich! Galactic Suite Ltd, set up in 2007, hopes to start its project ...
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• NASA Chief Resigns As Apocalypse Scandal Broadens

  
  Future Update — Authority: 114
  November 2, 2029—NASA Administrator Cy Phiphan resigned today as allegations mounted about his leading role in the end-of-the-world fraud scheme that sent billions of people fleeing the planet. While denying that he engaged in any intentional conspiracy to defraud the world, Phiphan said he needed to devote full ...
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• Missions to Mars

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 152
  I had no idea that man had attempted to visit Mars so many times. I wonder how much money we’ve spent trying to learn more about the red planet? It must be in the billions at this point.
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• 5 Frightening (But True) Space Stories

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  There are no aliens in these stories from NASA and the Soviet space program, just true tales of how being an astronaut is no picnic. Decompression? Landing in the wrong place? Using the toilet without a toilet? Not pleasant! On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard wet his pants aboard Freedom 7, but Apollo bathroom facilities ...
  1 week ago

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