Charles Simonyi, 58, a Hungarian-born billionaire software engineer, is ready for space travel with his new Russian-built Sokol spacesuit. A necessary item for his planned April 7, 2007 launch toward the international space station, aboard a Russian...
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The scientist, one of the best-known theoretical physicists of his generation has warned that the survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will...
Jim Sheehy of ProTravel International is one of 45 travel agents in the country who have been given the authority by Virgin Galactic to get you a ticket if you want top go.
Why are people willing to pay $200,000 for a trip to space? For some it...
At a time when space travel is all the hype if you can't afford it , go in for the next best thing. Plan a trip to Cape Canaveral
Welcome to the Space Coast of the Us, the site of the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force...
They are willing to pay as much as $200,000 for the novel experience. A Chinese businessman, from eastern China's Zhejiang province has paid as much to become his country's first space tourist, hoping for his space trip some time by the end of 2008....
For Virgin Galactic's short space trips you are sure not to go hungry. But if on long trips in space, food might become a concern.
To alleviate the pressure of space food qualms scientists are trying to grow food in conditions replicating mars...
This time they are selling Space travel to the New Zealanders. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is appointing agents around the world to sell seats on its SpaceShipTwo space flights - expected to take off by 2009.
Agencies must apply to become...
After all the fuss Space Travel may not be all that grand! Apart from the closed space there are definite negatives as reflected by Anousheh Ansari :
1)Keeping good hygiene in space is not easy! It meant washing hair by opening a water bag to make a...
Sir Richard Branson, the british millionaire was in New York to unveil a model of the rocket-powered vehicle SpaceShipTwo made by his company Virgin Galactic which will take passengers on suborbital flights sometime after 2008.
Branson was quoted as...
At the welcome-home event for the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshn-Piper fainted twice.
Dr. Benjamin Levine, a professor of medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, said the fainting is...
Anousheh Ansari an American of Iranian origin, who made her fortune in the telecommunications sector is set to blast off from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket at 7.08pm Bahrain time (0408 GMT) today.
She is quoted...
After the United States, Russia and China its now Canada's turn to venture into space travel . With a spaceport to be made at Sydney Mines, on Cape Breton, they are all set to provide travel in space for just $250,000. PlanetSpace -- a privately funded...
Virgin Galactic may be able to start launching its first trips as early as the next five years as indicated by its head Will Whitehorn. Lossiemouth Royal Air Force Base in Moray, Scotland will be used as a base from 2011.
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