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Panel considers cost of space tourismSunnyvale, Calif. (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 U.S. space tourists hoping to buy a ticket for a suborbital flight could expect to pay between $50,000 and $100,000 by 2014, analysts say. For prices to drop that low, the commercial space tourism industry would have to reach the point of offering thousands of flights per year, SPACE.com reported Tuesday. Some in the field are optimistic the industry could be offering that many flights in the near future, while others take a more pessimistic view. "People have put down money to fl ... read more |
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Farnborough, England (UPI) Jul 26, 2010 A team of Pennsylvania students won first place in the third annual Transatlantic Rocketry Challenge in Farnborough, England, officials say. The four-member team from Penn Manor High School in Millersville, Pa., beat out student rocket teams from the United Kingdom and France in the competition held at the 2010 Farnborough International Airshow, SPACE.com reported Friday. Separat ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 28, 2010What if work performed in space could improve the treatment of household and nuclear waste on Earth? That's what investigators are hoping to do with the results of a fluid physics study in progress on the International Space Station. The experiment, called DECLIC-HTI, is studying supercritical water that could lead to spin-offs in the field of clean technologies for treating waste here on ... more  
Potsdam, Germany (UPI) Jul 26, 2010 The hunt for Earth-like planets in the universe, which usually looks for where water might exist, should consider photosynthesis instead, German scientists say. Researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research argue while primitive life can exist without photosynthesis, it would be necessary for more complex multicellular organisms to emerge, Astrobiology Magazine report ... more |
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Scots Engineers Prove Space Pioneer's 25-Year-Old TheoryGlasgow, UK (SPX) Jul 27, 2010 When American space pioneer, Dr Robert L Forward, proposed in 1984 a way of greatly improving satellite telecommunications using a new family of orbits, some claimed it was impossible. But now engineers at the University of Strathclyde's Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory have proved that Forward was right. The late Dr Forward - a renowned physicist who worked in the United States and from his second home in Scotland - believed it was possible to use 'displaced orbits' to deploy more satel ... read more |
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