Tag: commercial spaceflight
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#NewWorldNextWeek: More than 100,000 people want to fly to Mars in 2022
from dailymail.co.uk: More than 100,000 people have applied to be a part of the Mars One project, which aims to colonize the red planet starting in 2022. Out of the thousands, 40 people will be selected. Of the 40, just four will participate in the first passage to Mars, which is scheduled to leave in…
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Virgin Galactic Closing in on Commercial Spaceflight
Universe Today informs, “SpaceShipTwo Fires Rocket Engines for First Ever Supersonic Test Flight.” “The test flight began at about 7:02 a.m. local California time as SpaceShipTwo took off from Mojave strapped to the belly of the WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) mothership. S2 was released from the mothership at an altitude of 47,000 feet (14 km) some 45…