May 25th, 2013 at 5:00PM: JD Hancock/Flickr
Planetary Resources is a group of world leaders that are building the ground floor opportunities for a space travel industry. Not long ago, in "One Good Reason Why Space Travel Will Happen In Your Lifetime," we told of their idea to mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, basically making space travel profitable. Now, the forward-thinking team at Planetary Resources has ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Planetary Resources To Change How We Explore The Cosmos
May 25th, 2013 at 5:00PM: JD Hancock/Flickr
Planetary Resources is a group of world leaders that are building the ground floor opportunities for a space travel industry. Not long ago, in "One Good Reason Why Space Travel Will Happen In Your Lifetime," we told of their idea to mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, basically making space travel profitable. Now, the forward-thinking team at Planetary Resources has ...Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield Makes First Music Video In Space
May 13th, 2013 at 12:00PM:
It's official. We Canadians rock. If William Shatner and Bryan Adams aren't enough for you, there's Chris Hadfield. He's an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency and has become hugely popular with his videos about life aboard the International Space Station, answering such profound questions as how to cut your nails in space.
Now Hadfield is coming home. He's turned over command of the ISS ...
Paying More For Flights? Try $70.6 Million Per Seat
May 1st, 2013 at 5:00PM: Travelers have become accustomed to paying more for flights as airline fees soar, tapping them for billions. Between baggage fees, service fees and in-flight fees, it is getting harder to find cheap fares and no one knows that better than NASA.
As the space shuttle program came to an end in 2011, NASA began relying on the Russian Space Agency to ferry astronauts and supplies back and forth from ...Space Travel Takes Giant Branson-Fueled Leap
Apr 30th, 2013 at 1:30PM:
Taking another step toward space travel for all, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo lit its engine Monday, breaking the sound barrier high above California's Mojave Air and Space port with billionaire Richard Branson on hand for the event.
"Today was the most significant day in the program," Branson told NBC News. "I think that for those people who have been good enough to stick with us for the ...One Good Reason Why Space Travel Will Happen In Your Lifetime
Apr 21st, 2013 at 10:00AM: The idea of space travel for all of us has been the stuff of dreams for centuries. Long before we had electricity or telephones, we looked to the stars, hoping to travel there some day. Science fiction writers fueled the fire and instilled in many of us a solid belief that some day we would travel beyond our earthly bounds. In the last half-century we have walked on the moon, built a permanent ...Claim Your Place In Space, Free
Apr 13th, 2013 at 4:00PM:
If being part of the first commercial space trip sounds like something only the ultra-wealthy might actually do, think again. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has a competition going on right now that will award a trip into space, billions not required.
Called the Claim Your Place In Space contest, KLM is giving us the chance to be in Curacao on January 1, 2014, when the first commercial space trip ...Space Travel Update: What NASA Is Up To These Days
Mar 11th, 2013 at 4:00PM: With the Space Shuttle program coming to an end and commercial space flight organizations providing service to the International Space Station, one might wonder what the people at NASA are doing these days. While we're not sure about other NASA facilities, Kennedy Space Center is keeping busy with a variety of activities.
The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has been the launch site used for every ...Canadian Space Agency Video: How To Cut Your Nails In Space And Other Tips For Living With Zero Gravity
Mar 5th, 2013 at 5:00PM:
What's daily life like on the International Space Station? The public has lots of questions, so the Canadian Space Agency, with the help of their astronaut Chris Hadfield, is giving out some answers. Hadfield is currently on the ISS and in this video shows how to clip your nails in zero gravity without them floating all over the cabin.
Hadfield is becoming an Internet sensation with his ...
Wanted: Married Couple For Mission To Mars
Mar 1st, 2013 at 8:00AM: Last week we brought you preliminary information on a proposed mission to Mars that is being spearheaded by Dennis Tito, the American multi-millionaire who became the world's first space-tourist back in 2001. At the time, Tito's plans were a bit nebulous but he promised more information was coming soon. On Wednesday of this week, he shared more details, including the possibility of sending a ...Friday Rocket Blast To Be Streamed Live
Feb 28th, 2013 at 4:00PM:
Earlier this week, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) fired up their Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft in a successful test to prepare for launch to the International Space Station, set for Friday, March 1, at 10:10 a.m. EST. Space travel fans can follow along during the event via LiveStream starting at 9:30 a.m.
Monday, SpaceX teams ran through all the countdown processes as if ...Mission To Mars Planned By Private Space Leaders
Feb 21st, 2013 at 5:00PM:
When we last heard from Dennis Tito, it was when the New York-born American engineer was catching a $20 million ride on the International Space Station. That was in 2001 and he did so against the wishes of NASA, instead hitting up the Russian Federal Space Agency for the lift. Now, 20+ years later, Tito plans a trip to Mars in a venture that should make him the first human ever to walk on the ...Space Shuttle Now Officially A Tourist Attraction
Nov 4th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
Space Shuttle Atlantis arrived this week at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to begin life as the star of a $100 million exhibit called the Shuttle Launch Experience, expected to open in July 2013. It was the historic final journey of a space shuttle orbiter, signaling the beginning of life after space for the shuttle fleet.
"We think visitors to Kennedy Space Center Visitor ...SpaceX Mission Viewing Available Live
Sep 30th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
The first SpaceX mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) happens October 7, 2012. The flight begins a series of missions to deliver and return cargo to the ISS under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract aboard the privately run Dragon spacecraft.
SpaceX's Dragon will bring 1,000 pounds of supplies to the six person Expedition 33 crew aboard the ISS. Those astronauts ...Photo Of The Day: Endeavour In San Francisco
Sep 22nd, 2012 at 5:00PM:
This Photo of the Day, "Endeavour in SF - see you in LA!" comes from Gadling Flickr pool member jrodmanjr and is taken with a Canon EOS 7D.
In 19 years of service, Endeavour went on 25 missions, carried 133 astronauts, spent 299 days in space and traveled 122,883,151 miles. Captured here by jrodmanjr is the shuttle's last journey, which began Monday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and ...Faster-Than-Light Travel May Be Possible
Sep 20th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
Faster-than-light travel was once seen as simply a key element in science fiction tales that made stories work. Faster-than-light warp drive made all that possible, at least between the covers of a good sci-fi book. In the real world though, travel to distant planets at speeds known to man, was thought to be impractical. Now, NASA is re-thinking warp drive with a focus on making fantasy into ...Space Travel To Include Interstellar Trips In 100 Years
Sep 10th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
The idea of space travel has its fans. But other than NASA astronauts or those wiling to pay a hefty fee to Richard Branson for a sub-orbital flight, few of us will actually see space, the final frontier. Interstellar flight, human travel beyond our solar system, seems even more elusive. The 100-year Starship Initiative, aims to change all that and even has the backing of one former U.S ...Welcome Home Taikonauts!
Jun 29th, 2012 at 1:30PM:
China has made another great leap forward in their space program. At 2:05 GMT today, the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft landed safely in Inner Mongolia.
The capsule contained three Chinese taikonauts (astronauts), including Major Liu Yang, China's first female taikonaut to go on a mission. The state press has nicknamed Major Liu Yang the "little Flying Knight," which seems a wee bit condescending ...Photos: Space Shuttle Enterprise's Epic Final Journey
Jun 8th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
Seeing NASA's Space Shuttle Program come to a conclusion has been tough on space travel geeks. Luckily, over the past few months, NASA has given us a few final treats as the shuttles make their way to their new museum homes.
The journey of Space Shuttle Enterprise has been particularly epic because of its barge trip on the Hudson River this week. In order for Enterprise to get to the ...Historic Space Travel Event Signals Start Of New Space Race
May 19th, 2012 at 6:00AM:
Space travel gets farther from the dream stage and closer to reality every day. Today, SpaceX will attempt to become the first private company to dock a capsule with the International Space Station. It's a critical step in NASA's plan for private contractors to transport cargo and crew into space and another step towards a new generation of space travel.
Called the Commercial Crew ...Space Travel: Hurry Up, We Have Mining To Do
May 1st, 2012 at 5:00PM: Thoughts of space travel bring images of the spent space shuttle program, Richard Branson and companies jockeying to build the next best vehicle to supply the International Space Station. Low-Earth orbital flights for commercial purposes should happen later this year, so things are moving right along in that area as well. But now, there is an organization that announced plans this week to mine ...
