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Private sector edges deeper in space
It sounds like a routine event for NASA: At 4:55 a.m. today, a rocket was scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and carry cargo — but no people — to the International Space Station. If all goes as planned, this morning will mark something tran from Hamilton Spectator Read more »
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Space Needle to award free trip to space today
An artist's depiction of a suborbital spaceflight offered by Space Adventures aboard an Armadillo Aerospace Vehicle. Seattle's Space Needle is offering a free trip on the spaceship as part of its Space Race 2012 contest. (Space Adventures/Space Race 2012 from CBS News Read more »
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Space Adventures' Suborbital Flight Boasts Double Occupancy | Video
The space tourism company hopes to send pairs of deep pocketed adventurers on flights of a lifetime, where they can spend a relaxing few minutes in zero gravity and return where they've departed from on a pillow of rocket engine fire. from Space.com Read more »
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Fantasizing About Future Space Adventures
Does news of private entrepreneurs mobilizing missions into space cause you to feel excitement or anxiety? Does it make you feel nothing at all? Stop for a moment and imagine: how does it all unfold? Will we eventually travel into the farthest reaches of from Big Think Read more »
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Mining asteroids: Going platinum
CAN reality trump art? That was the question hovering over the launch on April 24th, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, of a plan by a firm called Planetary Resources to mine metals from asteroids and bring them back to Earth. It sounds like the plot of from Hacker News Read more »
