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The first ever space hotel will be launched in 2012, say architects - and will cost £2.7million for a three-night stay. The eye-watering price will ...
globalpost.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
LONDON, U.K. - Recently I received an email labeled "Strictly Confidential" from Dr. Bakare Tunde, who said he was astronautics project manager at Nig...
AP | PETER LEONARD | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — Canadian circus tycoon Guy Laliberte turned space into his big top Wednesday, boarding a Russian rocket and lifting off on a mission that mixes a serious message on water shortages with some clowning around in the cosmos.
Laliberte, an experienced fire-eater and stilt-walker who founded Cirque du Soleil, joined Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and American astronaut Jeffrey Williams aboard a Soyuz craft that soared off the Kazakh steppe and set a course for the International Space Station.
The billionaire who calls himself the first clown in space paid a reported $35 million for his nine-day stay at the station, where he plans to publicize the world's growing shortage of clean water. His space extravaganza will culminate in a satellite linkup with shows in 14 cities across five continents featuring rock band U2 and Colombian pop star Shakira, as well as an appearance by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
With a puff of white smoke, the Soyuz craft carrying Laliberte and his crew mates shed its first rocket stage minutes after liftoff from the Baikonur launch facility and then disappeared from view.
Laliberte's friends and family on the ground waited anxiously and then burst into cheers when an announcement that the ship had reached orbit blared over a loudspeaker. There were ecstatic hugs, sobs of relief and chants of "Guy! Guy!"
Huffington Post | Lila SHapiro | Posted 09.06.2009 | Home
British Journalist James May takes a trip in a U2 spyplane to the edge of space. He narrates the journey, waxes philosophical, and eats lunch (he has...
Huffington Post | Lila SHapiro | Posted 09.06.2009 | Home
British Journalist James May takes a trip in U2s spyplane to the edge of space. He narrates the journey, waxes philosophical, and eats lunch (he has ...
Peter Clothier | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living
This book covers a truly amazing amount of material -- much of which was surprising and fresh even to one who has followed the adventures of human beings in space since the first Sputnik.
nytimes.com | WILLIAM HARWOOD | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- With the shuttle Discovery safely away from the International Space Station, a Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off Thursday...
Daily Telegraph | David Millward | Posted 12.08.2008 | Home
Sydney could be only two and a half hours away and it could take less time to get to Tokyo than it does to take a train from London to Manchester. Wa...
New Scientist | Posted 11.25.2008 | Home
The state of New Mexico hopes to collaborate with two firms to create suborbital vehicles for space tourists. This illustration is one concept for the...
AP | PETER LEONARD | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — An American computer game designer reached space Sunday, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream that began with the f...
Alex Remington | Posted 08.06.2008 | Entertainment
Unfortunately, space isn't much of a final frontier any more -- she's been around the block a few times, and I'm not sure my first time would be as magical as when I was 5.
Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
Scroll down for photos and video. From the AP: MOJAVE, Calif. - Virgin Galactic is giving the world a glimpse of its secret space tourism program. ...
AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 08.04.2008 | Home
LOS ANGELES — Aerospace engineers have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich to...
Bnet.com | Larry Dignan | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business
In the book, Office Mate, authors Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen explain how it's possible, even preferable, to meet your lifelong romantic partner ...
New York Times | John Schwartz | Posted 06.19.2008 | Business
Space tourists are getting their own ride. Space Adventures, a Virginia company that arranges passage for wealthy explorers to ride on Russian Soyuz r...
AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Entrepreneurs of the new commercial space age plan to start test flights in 2010 of a practical four-engine rocket ship ...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The spaceflight division of Richard Branson's company, Virgin Galactic, unveiled it's proto-type for a spaceship that will carry tourists to the stars...
Business Week | Dianna Dilworth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
As NASA prepares to retire the space shuttle by the end of the decade, just in time for completion of the International Space Station, the tourism ind...
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Mail Online | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology