SpaceX hit an important milestone by sending its Falcon 9 rocket into space, reports VentureBeat.SpaceX’s promise of commercialized space travel seems to be inching closer to reality. Back in 2008, it successfully launched the Falcon 1 after three unsuccessful tries, but that was more of a “proof of concept” vehicle, while SpaceX plans to use […]
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Jean-Jacques Velkeniers lives in Belgium and since he was a little boy he wanted to go into space. Now that Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is selling seats on their spaceship for rides into space for only $200,000, Jean-Jacques can finally go. There’s only one problem: he doesn’t have $200 grand. But proving that the entrepreneurial
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In a high tech first – really, really high – astronauts in space finally have Internet access. Space station resident Timothy (TJ) Creamer had been working with flight controllers to establish Internet access from his orbital post ever since he moved in last month. On Friday, his effort paid off. He posted the first live
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NASA announced that the cost of buying a used space shuttle for display in your museum, educational facility or backyard has dropped from $42 million to the low, low, low price of just $28.8 million, reports The Houston Press. And that’s not all!! The delivery of these fine, almost one-of-a-kind vehicle has been moved up
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A Spanish firm says it’s on track to take paying guests at the first ever hotel in outer space in 2012. A three-night stay at the Galactic Suite Space Resort will cost you about $4.4 million, but that includes an eight-week training course on a tropical island. At least 40 people have already made reservations.
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radaronline.com: Smoke Detector Originally installed on the Skylab space station in early 1970s to alert crew members of unexpected fumes, smoke detectors are now required by law in every U.S. residence to prevent house fires. Cordless Tools Recruited by NASA in 1971, Black & Decker constructed cordless, battery-powered instruments that allowed Apollo astronauts to collect
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WIBC: For at least one Hoosier, the drama of July 20th, 1969 lives on. Brian Tanner remembers watching the Apollo 11 moon landing on his parents’ black and white Sylvania television. Like many others over the age of 40, he dreamed of traveling in space. Unlike most others, he’s building his own launch facility, now–at
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SPACE.com: NASA astronaut Don Pettit loves his coffee. So it comes as no surprise that he found a way to drink coffee from a cup, instead of the traditional straw, on his day off Sunday aboard the International Space Station. Drinking any liquid in the weightless environment of space could be a messy affair. With
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