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Elon Musk says Mars round could cost only $100,000 one day
Would you take a vacay to Mars if it only set you back about $100,000? Seems pretty cheap for an interplanetary trip, but Elon Musk says he is confident this could be true one day… depending on how many people want to visit the Red Planet. Read more…
View More Elon Musk says Mars round could cost only $100,000 one dayElon Musk says Mars round could cost only $100,000 one day
Would you take a vacay to Mars if it only set you back about $100,000? Seems pretty cheap for an interplanetary trip, but Elon Musk says he is confident this could be true one day… depending on how many people want to visit the Red Planet. Read more…
View More Elon Musk says Mars round could cost only $100,000 one dayMeet Shuttle, the company that’s building a booking agent for spaceflight
Avery Haskell says he first knew he wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a boy growing up in Houston near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The 24 year-old Stanford graduate who counts Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan as his heroes, grew up in an entrepreneurial family. In the early days of the Internet […]
View More Meet Shuttle, the company that’s building a booking agent for spaceflightWatch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ‘Block 5’ rocket take its first re-flight
SpaceX is sending of one of newest Falcon 9 rockets back into space for the second time this early morning U.S. time. The Falcon 9 ‘Block 5’ rocket is designed to be able to go into space and return 100 times, but these are early days. The rocket leaving today is taking Indonesian satellite Merah Putih […]
View More Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ‘Block 5’ rocket take its first re-flightVirgin Galactic’s third supersonic test flight hits Mach 2 and 170,000 feet
Virgin Galactic is celebrating the third successful supersonic test flight of VSS Unity, the passenger spacecraft it intends to make available for space tourism in the near future. This flight took the craft higher and faster than ever, stressing the system and providing useful data for this rocket plane’s engineers.
View More Virgin Galactic’s third supersonic test flight hits Mach 2 and 170,000 feetBlue Origin launches rocket to space in ‘extreme’ test of the crew capsule
From its desolate West Texas launchpad, Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin launched another reusable rocket into space, and then successfully landed both the rocket booster and the large-windowed crew capsule.
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Watch Blue Origin’s most critical rocket launch right here
The launch is scheduled for 11:00 am EDT on July 18, 2018. Blue Origin is about to preform a critical rocket test. For the first time Jeff Bezos’ rocket company will send send its New Shepard rocket to its red line at the edge of space and then fire the escape motor on the capsule […]
View More Watch Blue Origin’s most critical rocket launch right hereBlue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
How much would you pay to leave our dumpster fire of a world for just a few minutes? Blue Origin is considering charging $200,000 to $300,000 according to a Reuters report. For that price, passengers would get a seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard, the commercial space vehicle from Jeff Bezos’ rocket company. The rocket […]
View More Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to spaceBlue Origin’s New Shepard skims space in successful 8th test launch
Blue Origin conducted the 8th launch of its New Shepard sub-orbital rocket and crew capsule today out in Texas, and things couldn’t have gone better for the growing space tourism company. The rocket ascended into a cloudless sky, reaching a max velocity of about 2,200 MPH, and delivered its capsule to the edge of space, where its occupant, “Mannquin Skywalker,” will have had a lovely view of the Earth.
View More Blue Origin’s New Shepard skims space in successful 8th test launchVirgin Galactic successfully tested its rocket-powered spacecraft today for the first time since 2014
Virgin Galactic took to the skies today for the first test of its rocket-powered spacecraft in over three years. The SpaceShipTwo launch platform deployed the USS Unity at a set altitude where the space craft will fire its engines for as long as 30 seconds bringing the craft to 1 1/2 the speed of sound. […]
View More Virgin Galactic successfully tested its rocket-powered spacecraft today for the first time since 2014SpaceX is making big money moves
Planning a mars mission, a global telecommunications network for inexpensive internet service, and creating an interplanetary hedge against world war three isn’t cheap, so it’s no wonder that SpaceX is closing on $500 million in new cash through a financing round led by Fidelity, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the round. Responding to clamoring […]
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