News Space tourism coming soon!!!

[abninf]

Wonder what the price tag will be for a ride on the CST-100 to a Bigelow hotel.. Way out of my price range I bet :lol:

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Parabolic Arc: "RocketMotorTwo Fired for Fifth Time".

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Somebody forgot to flare!
SPACE.com: "Virgin Galactic Spaceship-Launching Jet Damaged in 'Minor' Runway Accident".

Mercury News: "FAA starts considering private space travel rules".

Discovery News: "Will a Commercial Flight be First To Mars"?

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Video: XCOR's Lee Valentine describes a mock-up of the Lynx suborbital spacecraft.​

 

[Pyromaniac605]

No thank you I will be saving my money for that Holodeck thank you very much. (Cinema Snob voice)

Darren

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

The Daily Mail: "Danish inventors produce first amateur rocket designed to send humans into space (and one of them is going to test it out himself)".

I must admit, I'm not sure I would test this out without first getting some good life insurance! :lol:

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NewSpace Journal: "Weekend roundup".

NewSpace Journal: "Virgin: Irish article 'entirely inaccurate'".

 

[T.Neo]

Discovery News: "Will a Commercial Flight be First To Mars"?

Yes! Nuclear rockets seeing some consideration again... including involvement from the private sector...

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Yes! Nuclear rockets seeing some consideration again... including involvement from the private sector...

Or, as George Bush would say: "Nuculer"! :lol:

It's new-clear!!!

 

[Andy44]

Jimmy Carter also says "nucular", and he was a nuclear engineer before he was a politician!

Private sector flying nuclear spaceships to Mars? Too good to be true, but maybe someday.

 

[T.Neo]

Private sector flying nuclear spaceships to Mars? Too good to be true, but maybe someday.

Well, there would be heavy government involvement, just as there has been with SpaceX projects up till now. The biggest problem is the uneducated screaming away from Nucular power in space, and if they keep doing that, it's going to have us stuck in LEO for a very long time...

Maybe someday we will have nuclear powered, VASIMR propelled tramp freighters... :lol:

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Las Cruses Sun-News: "Doña Ana County officials OK spaceport road-paving deal".

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Video: XCOR Chief Engineer Dan DeLong explains the Lynx engine.​

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

SPACE.com: "Boeing Moves Forward With Commercial Space Capsule".

Parabolic Arc: "Sierra Nevada: "Excellent" Progress on Dream Chaser".

Parabolic Arc: "Will the Public Finally Get a Peek at Blue Origin’s Work"?


Parabolic Arc: "Burt Rutan May Be Retiring and Leaving Mojave".

Parabolic Arc: "Bob Richards Leaves as Odyssey Moon CEO".

Bob Richards' Blog: "A Personal Odyssey".

 

[Andy44]

Burt Rutan retire?! Say it ain't so!

Of course a guy like that will never really quit for good, he'll just become a consultant. Hopefully he'll figure out how to orbit people for cheap.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Space Travel: "Space Tourism Sector A Good Opportunity For Insurance Firms".

Heh, I can just imagine it:
The commander of Boeing's CST-100 accidentally clips the ISS during approach for docking, but he doesn't want to have to explain it to the ISS commander, and so he does a retro-fire and aborts the docking.
Then the ISS commander starts chasing the CST-100 in his Soyuz: "Hey, we need to swap insurance info"! :rofl:

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Parabolic Arc: "Masten Plans Extensive Commercial Flight Operations in 2011".

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Parabolic Arc: "New Mexico Spaceport Authority Seeks Deputy Director".

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Parabolic Arc: "FAA COMSTAC Meeting Agenda Released".

Parabolic Arc: "Armadillo to Launch NASA-Funded Test Flights From Spaceport America".

Video: Armadillo Tests Lunar Lander for NASA's Project M.​

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Las Cruces Sun-News: "Texas company to test rockets at spaceport".

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Parabolic Arc: "Boeing Teaming Up With Space Adventures".

 

[MisterBurkes]

Look at this one:

http://www.jochen-schweizer.de/geschenke/weltraumflug,default,pd.html

Yeah it's german.
But with a bit of school german , and/or google Translator, you will figure it out .

jochen schweizer . de is a page that sells extreme sport trips, like
driving quads in the arctic and so on.

Well he also gives you the opportunity to buy a "space trip" .
The price description is: "Price if Demanded" (something like that.)

Well i'd do that, but even flying an MIG 29 costs 14.000 € .
That space expedition probably costs a mountain of paper.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

El Paso Times: "Into the future: NM desert a launchpad for space tourism".

 

[Rtyh-12]

I hope so

Anyways, orbital flights will come. I bet easily within 20 years.

I think you're be right. At least I hope...
But what we really need is something like the DeltaGliderIV, at the cost of a current airplane. Perhaps it could even take us to the ISS! That would be really cool.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Parabolic Arc: "WhiteKnightTwo Completes Successful Test Flight".

Las Cruces Sun-News: "Spaceport construction 'chugging along'".

Las Cruces Sun-News: "PROFILE: Homans, Spaceport America are in on the ground floor".

Video: Armadillo "Super Mod" Test Flight.​

New Virgin Galactic Promotional Video: Your Journey Into Space Starts Here.​