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'100-Year Starship' on the Drawing Boards at NASA
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News
(Nov. 1) -- A NASA official's brief mention of a spaceship that could could travel to the stars has set off a flurry of speculation over the space agency's plans. "We just started a project with [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]," Simon "Pete" Worden, the head of the NASA Ames Research Center, said last month at an event sponsored by the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. "It's called the 100-year starship." This is no round-trip flight to the moon, or even Mars. The astronauts wouldn't come back. The goal of this starship would be a one-way flight for humans to colonize other ...
Commercial Space Travel: Not All That Green, Study Says
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 25) -- Last week, a science fiction vision of the future seemed to get one step closer when Virgin Group's Sir Richard Branson unveiled a completed runway at the new Virgin Galactic Spaceport in the New Mexico desert. But some scientists are now worrying that the environmental impact of private spacecraft might make the future less "The Fifth Element" and more "Mad Max." A recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters warns that the effects of these particular spacecraft on climate change will be even worse than the baseline one might assume from blasting tourists into space. ...
Spaceport America Celebrates Completed Runway
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Oct. 22) -- Dignitaries including British billionaire Richard Branson and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson gathered today to celebrate the completion of a runway designed for commercial space flight. Branson's Virgin Galactic is set to be the first company to use the two-mile runway at Spaceport America in Las Cruces, N.M, Agence France-Presse reported. The company has already taken in $45 million from customers who want to book their places on a commercial flight into space. "The mothership has been finished and flying for a while now," Branson said. "We're entering the last stages of the ...
Boeing Will Fly You to ... Outer $$$pace
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- Boeing Co. wants to fly you to outer space, where you can play among the stars. But forget economy seats: Tickets are likely to be in the tens of millions. The aerospace giant and Virginia-based Space Adventures announced this week they will sell passenger seats on the Boeing Crew Space Transportation-100 spacecraft, currently being designed to ferry crew members to the International Space Station. "We want to expand beyond flying astronauts just to the ISS," Brewster Shaw, vice president and general manager of Boeing's Space Exploration division, told reporters Wednesday. ...
What Americans Think the World Will Look Like in 2050
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA large majority of Americans believe that in the year 2050 computers will be able to converse like human beings, cancer will be cured and artificial limbs will perform better than natural ones, according to a Pew Research Center poll based on a survey conducted in April and released Tuesday. The poll was conducted in conjunction with Smithsonian magazine for a special issue marking its 40th anniversary. But while Stanley Kubrick may have foreseen a future in "2001: A Space Odyssey" where a Pan American commercial craft carried civilians to the moon, only 53 percent believe that ordinary ...
Private Firms Look to Cash In on NASA Cuts
By Larisa Mendez Downes - AOL News(Feb. 1) – With NASA's Constellation program cut from the budget President Obama proposed Monday, private companies have the chance to play a bigger role in the next space race. While the budget request for fiscal year 2011 eliminates the Constellation program – which would have replaced the space shuttle with new rockets to return humans to the moon and ultimately land them on Mars – it provides funds for NASA to work with private industry to provide transportation to the International Space Station (ISS) and take on other exploratory and scientific projects. NASA ...
Opinion: Dude, Where's My Flying Car?
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- I turned 40 this year and, alas, like many before me who've entered middle age, I've fallen quite short of my long-term career goal. In my case, that was to become a space-suited technician in a dusty lunar city. AP Photo/Heinz Ducklau This year also happens to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the first time a human being ever set foot on another world. This event was always in the background during my '70s-era childhood, that giant leap for mankind a mere first step toward .... what? Huge, circular space stations, gracefully pirouetting in low Earth ...
One Small Step for Science, One Giant Leap Away From Celebrity
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThursday is the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 to the moon, where astronaut Neil Armstrong famously took a giant leap for mankind (that's us, too, ladies!) and a small step for man (just you fellows that time.) How to celebrate this? Well, you could read up on the history of space travel! You could watch old footage of the moon landing! You could get some cardboard boxes, markers and tin foil and build an Apollo 11 replica of your own! Or, you could sweep up clippings of Neil Armstrong's hair into a little plastic bag and dig up his voided checks to be sold to the highest bidder! ...
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