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When NASA's space shuttle fleet retires in 2011, the space agency will have to rely on Russian ... President Barack Obama views the policy as a boost to the nascent commercial spaceflight industry, where competition is already heating up to supply the ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39273082/ns/technology_and_science-space/
A one-way trip to Mars sounds like something you'd wish on your worst enemy — so why would more than 78,000 people from around the world pay up to $75 for a chance to die on another planet? "I can say I have an ulterior motive," said David ...http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/19/18305415-why-sign-up-for-a-one-way...
Selected by Forbes as one of the "Names You Should Know" in 2011, Moon Express is a privately funded lunar transportation and data services company ... engineers from Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory. Team leader is Michael V.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23284596/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/teams-shoot...
The mainstream explanation for the Sphinx's weathering patterns goes by the unwieldly label of "salt crystal stress-induced exfoliation," or SCrySIE in Egypto-geekspeak. The idea is that moisture percolates up through the limestone, depositing salt ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5727486/
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Rocket racers target spacehttp://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo/_new/081024-coslog-suborbital-vlarge.grid-6x3.jpg
What's Uwingu? Space funding venture isn't just for space fans ...http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120815-coslog-stern-345p.grid-6x3.jpg
That may not sound like much, and Callas cautioned that the maneuvers ...http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100111-coslog-suborbital-hmed-545p.grid-6x3.jpg
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A sub-orbital space flight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches space, but its trajectory intersects the atmosphere or surface of the gravitating body ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-orbital_spaceflight
Updated May. 14, 2013
The opportunity is closer than ever for private citizens to travel to space and gaze at the beauty of the Earth at a relatively affordable price.http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Suborbital.welcome
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Suborbital space travel is on the verge of a renaissance, experts say, with short jaunts to the edge of space becoming more popular for research and soon to be ...http://www.space.com/16291-suborbital-space-research-flights.html
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This diagram from XCOR Aerospace shows where science payloads will be placed on its Lynx space plane during suborbital spaceflights. Engine engineering for XCOR ...http://www.space.com/16044-xcor-lynx-space-plane-pictures.html
