Archive for February, 2012

RLV and Space Transport News » Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book …

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

But even if one accepts the premise that only governments will do deep space science exploration , significant decreases in space transportation costs via commercial developers would still have a huge impact. Planetary …

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RLV and Space Transport News » Photos To Space to fly on UP …

Monday, February 27th, 2012

3rd European Space Tourism Conference Royal Aeronautical Society London, UK June 19 … of getting people involved and interested in space .

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Project Icarus: Contemplating Starship Design

Monday, February 27th, 2012

Andreas Tziolas, current leader of Project Icarus, gave a lengthy interview recently to The Atlantic's Ross Andersen, who writes about starship design in Project Icarus: Laying the Plans for Interstellar Travel . Icarus …

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February 22, 2012

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Florida-based Astronauts4Hire and partner company Vital Space will test a new biometric monitoring system designed for use by spaceflight participants on a May 2012 reduced gravity parabolic flight campaign in Houston, Texas. They will undergo up to …. Many other physicists suspected that the result was due to some kind of error, given that it seems at odds with Einstein's special theory of relativity, which says nothing can travel faster than the speed of light

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NipponSoftInc: Passenger space flight aircraft being developed with …

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

For $200000 a ticket, Virgin's Spaceship Two will carry six tourists to an altitude of 360000 feet or 68 miles. That is ” space ' for all intents and purposes.

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