Archive for the ‘Outer Space’ Category

Astronauts (like Buzz Aldrin and John Glenn) Offer Space Artifacts in Online Charity Auction

Kennedy Space Center, FL – Space artifacts are now up for grabs in the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s (ASF) Fall Auction of Astronaut Experiences & Memorabilia, which opens online tomorrow and goes through September 3. Bidders will have the chance to own relics from over five decades of mankind’s journey into the unknown, including autographed items [...]

August 26, 2011   Posted in: Outer Space

Russian firm to build space hotel

Russian firm has announced it will have a space hotel in orbit possibly by the end of 2015 or the beginning of 2016. Pravda reports that the Moscow-based Orbital Technologies has sky-high hopes that its planned Commercial Space Station can serve as a tourism hub for well-heeled travellers and offer overspill accommodation for the International [...]

October 1, 2010   Posted in: Outer Space

Tourists in Space by 2015!

Space travel has become quite an intriguing term in recent years. With Boeing’s recent news revelations, the first step into space tourism has been made and what can be called nothing else but ‘space taxi’ may be launched as early as 2015.

September 29, 2010   Posted in: Outer Space

First East African space tourist set for take off

By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN | February, 2010: East African business tycoon, Ashish Thakkar, set to be blasted into space just as soon as the galactic space ship of Virgin has been cleared for public flight, has collected the flags of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania from the presidents and prime ministers of the three countries to [...]

February 23, 2010   Posted in: Outer Space

Sir Richard Branson to unveil Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

By Paula Bustamante | Dec 07, 2009 British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space — for a mere 200,000 dollars. The lunar-like landscape of the Mojave desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas will stage the roll-out of Virgin Galactic’s [...]

December 7, 2009   Posted in: Outer Space

Cirque du Soleil founder Laliberte to Become Space’s First Canadian Tourist

Cirque du Soleil founder Laliberte is set to become the first Canadian tourist in space. It seems that nowadays a billionaire business tycoon is no longer worthy of that title without having ventured into orbit and making sure the world knows about it. Indeed, the higher the price the better.

June 16, 2009   Posted in: Outer Space

SPACE TOURISM – Out of this world!

BY MARK HARDING | FEB 27, 2009 LISBON, Portugal (eTN) – Every now and again a new form of high-speed transit appears such as the TGV, wide-body airliner, Concorde and so on, but nothing quite compares with the supersonic marvel that forms the basis of Richard Branson's futuristic space tourism operation called Virgin Galactic.

February 27, 2009   Posted in: Outer Space

Virgin Galactic Rolls Out MotherShip “Eve”

Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceShipOne designer, Burt Rutan, today pulled back the hangar doors on the new WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier aircraft that will ferry SpaceShipTwo and thousands of private astronauts, science packages and payload on the first stage of the Virgin Galactic sub-orbital space experience.

July 29, 2008   Posted in: Outer Space

Space tourism firms set for big leaps

NEW YORK – Two space tourism firms hoping to give fare-paying customers the rides of their lives are set to take some major steps forward in coming months. On July 28, the suborbital tourism firm Virgin Galactic will unveil the first WhiteKnightTwo mothership for its planned fleet of SpaceShipTwo spaceliners designed by aerospace veteran Burt [...]

June 23, 2008   Posted in: Outer Space

2-seat rocket planned for space tourism

LOS ANGELES – A California aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism industry with a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes more than 37 miles above the Earth.

March 27, 2008   Posted in: Outer Space