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- Blogging from space
- I bet that many of you envy Anousheh Ansari, an American businesswoman born in Iran, who will become on September 18 the first female space tourist. As the previous male ones, Ansari had to pay about $20 million for 10 days in space. After a trip in a Soyuz spacecraft...
- Tags: night sky, Anousheh Ansari
- Blog posts 2006-09-16
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- X Prize winner says NASA 'silly' to go to moon again
- Any work NASA is doing to return to the moon is "silly," Burt Rutan, the engineer who won the Ansari X Prize for a suborbital rocket plane, told a panel at CalTech on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the space program, News.com reports. "Taxpayer-funded NASA should only...
- Tags: NASA, Productivity, Leadership, Management, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Google conquers outer space
- As reported elsewhere but as I discovered yesterday on MSNBC's Cosmic Log, Google will offer a $30 million prize to the first private entity to send automated robot vehicles to the moon. Similar to the $10 million Ansari X prize awarded to the first privately-funded team to send humans into...
- Tags: Google Inc., John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Dreaming up a new defence contractor
- On August 22, 1963 a guy named Joe Walker flew the Bell X-15 experimentalspaceplane to 354,200 feet - a record not equalled until Brian Binnie flewSpaceShipOne to 367,442 feet in October of 2004.What happened at NASA in between was basically that the nationalurgency put into the moon missions forced...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Staying clean in space
- When Anousheh Ansari was aboard the ISS in September, she wrote in her space blog that "keeping good hygiene in space is not easy!" She described how it was difficult to wash her hair or brush her teeth without water. As you probably know, water is recycled on the ISS,...
- Tags: ISS, NASA
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
- NASA needs astronauts - apply here
- Thought I'd take a detour from discussions about god to Space exploration, just because I'm enjoying staying mostly off-topic this week. It wasn't my intention that the talkbacks to my last post would take such a theological bent, but so what? The discussion was interesting, and...
- Tags: NASA, Space
- Blog posts 2006-09-01
- X Prize funder to become first female space tourist
- X Prize funder to become first female space touristCoolchicks in space... that's sexy! :)Ansari X-prize winner a phonyThe X-prize stipulated that you had to transport 2 passengers to space in a 72 hour period. This meant LIVE HUMAN BEINGS and not a couple of sacks of potatos. AFAIK the pilot...
- Tags: X Prize, flight vehicle
- Discussion threads 2006-08-25
- Mergers in private space travel
- Mergers in private space travelNew?Your text:"the Ansari X Prize, a relatively new $10 million contest"Do a little research before posting news items, the Ansari X-Prize was announced in 1996 and the contest was won 2 years ago. Hardly a new contest.
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, merger
- Discussion threads 2006-05-31
- Geeks in space
- Geeks in spaceIf I had the moneyI would be SO there! That would be the first investment if I won the lottery. The second would be to buy a seat on a Virgin Galactic flight :DWhy? Because they are the forward thinkers.I mean if they weren't "futurists" they wouldn't...
- Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Kinematics, Mother Earth, monument, AIAA, aerospace, cage
- Discussion threads 2004-10-06
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