Commercial Space Travel

The New Space Race: The Next 30 Years of Human Exploration of Space

Richard Garriott de Cayeux | Posted 04.22.2012

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So, why travel into space and why should tax payers pay for humans to travel beyond Earth? Because this exploration will return direct economic value beyond exploration, in areas such as energy and minerals.

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Private Spaceflight Venture Gears Up For First Passenger Flights

Posted 02.09.2012

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — This year is key for Virgin Galactic's bid to become the first commercial spaceliner service, as rocket-powered flights of it...

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Va. Legislator Proposes Tax Subsidies For Space Burials

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The great unknown meets the great beyond meets tax policy. Virginia Del. Terry G. Kilgore (R) is proposing an $8,000 tax credit for p...

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Mars Science Laboratory -- Product vs. Process

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Nasa, Space Exploration, Moon, Nasa Launch, Commercial Space Travel, Mars, Orion, Mars Science Laboratory, Space Program, Technology News

It has often seemed over the years that there are two government space programs. One is bold and experimental in its style and approach, giving me and the millions of other Americans who are paying for this something for our money.

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Amazing Pictures Of Planned 'Space Hotel' Released

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 10.21.2011

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Orbital Technologies, a Russian space exploration firm, has released pictures of the Commercial Space Station, a "space hotel" that it plans to open f...

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Watch: Space Needle's Out Of This World Contest

Posted 10.02.2011

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Seattle's Space Needle wants to is breaking through the final frontier to celebrate its golden anniversary. The Needle's management are running a ...

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The New Space Biz: Companies Seek Cash In The Cosmos

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 09.21.2011

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Early Thursday morning, Naveen Jain switched on his iPad and watched the Atlantis space shuttle glide onto the runway of the Kennedy Space Center in C...

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Apollo's Children and the NewSpace Revolution

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 09.21.2011

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The shuttle program ended this week just as we celebrated the 42nd anniversary of Apollo. It is poetic and yet sad. It also begs the question, what ne...

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NASA's Constellation Hallucination and the Congressional Money Drug

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rather than leaving behind flags and footprints because we spent so much just getting off the Earth we can't afford to stay, NewSpace allows us to go anywhere in the solar system and stay there.

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Entrepreneurs At Work On First Private Space Station

nytimes.com | Kenneth Chang | Posted 05.25.2011

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Four years from now, the company [Bigelow Aerospace] plans for real modules to be launched and assembled into the solar system's first private space s...

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Commercial Spaceflight: Creating 21st Century Jobs

Bill Richardson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's bold, new plan for NASA is a win-win decision, creating thousands of new high-tech jobs and helping America retain its leadership role in science and technology.

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NASA To Outsource Space Travel To Private Companies As Part Of Obama's Budget Proposal

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN AND ALICIA CHANG | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Getting to space is about to be outsourced. The Obama administration on Monday will propose in its new budget spending billions of...

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Four -- Anousheh Ansari and Her $10 Million Purse

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Diamandis, Spaceshipone, X Prize Foundation, Anousheh Ansari, Richard Branson Commercial Space Travel, Richard Branson, Commercial Space Travel, Rockets, Ansari X PRIZE, Technology News

We had been looking for possibilities to go to space and perhaps find a way for others like us with to be able to do it as well. While some options existed, they lacked credibility.

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