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• in Small Business
  NASA Launches With Small Business
  Increasingly, the act of exploring the outer expanses is being done with the help of small to medium businesses.
  by dopodomani / on Jan 4, 2013
• in Technorati Women
  Space Travel Club: Rich Kids Only?
  Space flight, while fiscally out of reach for most consumers, is an exciting prospect for those who enjoy adventurous travel.
  by aweinclusive / on Oct 19, 2011
• in Film
  Lunopolis (2009) Peeks into the Future…and the Past
  Don’tcha just hate it when people from the moon travel back in time to fix history and mess something up?
  by missbobetier / on Oct 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “space travel”

 

• 78,000 apply to live and die on Mars, because they hate Earth, clearly

  
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  SOME people hate Earth so much that they’ve applied to live on Mars, even though Mars looks like an arid death hole. More than 78,000 people from 120 different countries have applied to leave Earth, which frankly makes them traitors and we should round them up and boo them into oblivion. The openings come from a ...
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• NASA planning emergency spacewalk to fix ISS ammonia leak

  
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  After an ammonia leak was discovered on the International Space Station last night, NASA and the ISS crew are working together to come up with a fix. It’s been decided that an emergency spacewalk will be conducted to inspect the leak and attempt to fix it before matters get worse. The leak is on the outside, so ...
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• Second star to the right and straight on till morning

  
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  Controlling the International Space Station (ISS), as it hurtles above our heads in Earth orbit, looks incredibly straightforward here , but I suspect there’s far more to steering a vessel, or if you ask me, a structure, with the dimensions of the ISS.
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• Thumbs To Jupiter: Space Travel Becomes More Popular

  
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  While today is Cinco de Mayo, a little cold and grey here in SF, not shuttle launching weather, it’s also the anniversary of the first American in space. Yup. Today in 1961, we launched Navy Commander, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., from Cape Canaveral, Florida, into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule. Source, ...
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• To Infinity And Beyond

  
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  In the near future, private space companies will ferry thousands of people to and from the edge of space. Leading the charge is Virgin Galactic , with over 500 people signed up at $200,000 per person for flights beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Founded by Richard Branson in 1999, Virgin Galactic was the first private ...
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• Preparing for Its First Space Trip, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Breaks Sound Barrier

  
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  With a rocket-powered test flight, the billionaire’s space transportation company moves closer to its goal of shuttling tourists into space by 2014. [via YoungEntrepreneur.com ] Follow us @entrepreneurht – lists / @sectorheat
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• Preparing for Its First Space Trip, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Breaks Sound Barrier

  
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  With a rocket-powered test flight, the billionaires space transportation company moves closer to its goal of shuttling tourists into space by 2014.
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• Is There True Life On Mars?: Visitors To The Red Planet May Be The Next Real House Wives of Outer Space

  
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  Last year when Curiosity landed on the Mars, we pushed the boundaries of space exploration. With stunning images, soil samples, and new data pouring in every second from Curiosity, a new door has opened for the age of space exploration. Although some argue others are taking things a little too fast for comfort. A ...
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• Orbital Nostalgia: Retired NASA Space Shuttles in Rare Nose-to-Nose Encounter

  
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  (All images by NASA, via Space.com , public domain) For more than 20 years they were housed in adjoining bays at Kennedy Space Center. Shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis were allocated to Orbiter Processing Facility 1 and 2 respectively, while Discovery lived in OFP-3 across the road. But despite their close ...
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• Meet the thousands of people ready to die on Mars

  
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  Insert your face here! Provided funding, suppliers, and a plan come to light within the next 10 years. Mars One Aaron Hamm , an assistant hotel engineer who deals with HVAC, cooling systems, and maintenance, lacks the traditional qualifications to be an astronaut. But that doesnt mean he ...
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• Spectacular Video Of First Virgin Galactic Rocket Test Going Supersonic Ten Miles High

  
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  In October 2004, Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites claimed the $10 million Ansari X Prize when their spacecraft SpaceShipOne achieved suborbital flight—the first private organization to do so. Now, the commercial version of SpaceShipOne, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, achieved supersonic speeds after its ...
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• Behind the Scenes of SpaceShipTwo’s First Powered Flight

  
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  The first rocket-powered flight of SpaceShipTwo lasted mere seconds, but getting it there took hours.
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• why colonizing another planet really shouldn’t be a reality show

  
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  The Mars One project generated a good deal of media attention by promising to fund its efforts to colonize the Red Planet with a reality show which would follow the crews on their one way trip and chronicle their efforts at living on another world. Now while this sounds like the most far out premise for the next ...
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• Hubble telescope successor may use dead stars to find live planets

  
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  Researchers from Harvard and Tel Aviv Universities published a paper arguing that the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope could be used to look at supposedly "dead" star-systems, and they think that doing so could finally lead us to proof of life elsewhere in the universe.
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• Is Travelling To Mars A Reality?

  
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  A look at the upcoming space missions that are being planned. In particular commercial trips to Mars commissioned by Dutch group, Mars One, and space tourist Dennis Tito.
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• Would You Live On Mars?

  
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  In 2011 a company called “Mars One” decided to be ballsy. They were going to boldly go where only probes and rovers had gone before. Mars. A year ago the company did an AMA on Reddit and got absolutely destroyed. I didn’t think that a company whose business model, which consisted of crowd sourced funding [...]
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• SpaceX Grasshopper takes another big hop on way to reusable rockets

  
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  SpaceX’s grasshopper does another test . Gets 820 feet up into the air and comes back down just fine. This is some amazing, they’re getting closer and closer to doing a first stage of a rocket that’s fully reusable. Oh, and the private space race continues, Antares was just launched by Orbital Sciences here ...
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• Reality Show Producers Accepting Applications For Show To Be Filmed On Mars

  
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  Never thought you’d see humans colonize Mars in your lifetime? You still might not if you’re in your 60s or older. But for us young breeds who still have a chance at a life worth living, we might actually see the colonization of Mars by our own homosapien brethren. And by see, I mean watch on TV. Mars One is ...
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• Mars One Reality Show Reaches Next Small Step

  
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  Mars One, the innovative reality show format and space travel project proposed by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp , has reached the next phase of its long-term plan to make the first human residents of Mars into a TV show. A press release published on Monday announced that the non-profit organisation are starting ...
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• After Two Scrubbed Launches, Orbital Sciences’ Rocket Finally Lifts Off

  
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  The third time was the charm for Orbital Sciences after the company successfully launched its new Antares rocket for the first time Sunday. After about a 10 minute flight, the rocket delivered a payload to orbit including a "mass simulator" ...
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