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Want to blast into space with Angelina Jolie and Stephen Hawking? Well Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic might just be your ticket to ride.
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I discuss the landmark space tourism venture and what it means for the future of manned space travel. Plus what might happen if Kanye West ventured into suborbital space?
For decades, space travel has been the province of nations. A nation like the United States would select a handful of people, train them extensively, anoint them as astronauts and send them into space at very great cost. That model changed slightly in 2001. A businessman named Dennis Tito spent $20 million to become the [...]
The SpaceShipTwo vehicle, capable of carrying six paying customers on a suborbital flight (along with two pilots), has flown for the first time, although it remained attached to the mothership the entire time: This is Virgin’s glossier presentation on the occasion of SpaceShipTwo’s rollout in December, 2009 at the Mojave spaceport: In the following video, [...]
A friend sent me a link to this web site… CopenhagenSuborbitals.com …and the first thing you see is a very direct mission statement: Our mission is very simple. We are working towards launching a human being into space. Obviously they are not the only people who are doing this. Virgin Galactic and a host of [...]
James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever – “In 1977, a 22-year-old truck driver named James Cameron went to see Star Wars with a pal. His friend enjoyed the movie; Cameron walked out of the theater ready to punch something. He was a college dropout and spent his days delivering school lunches in [...]
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