DUBLIN, Ireland: Richard Branson rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct 28 as Virgin Galactic became the first commercial spaceflight company to list on the stock market.
It was valued at more than US$1 billion following its merger with publicly-listed holding firm Social Capital Hedosophia, then experienced a 20 per cent drop in its share price after a week of trading. It is now worth around US$800 million.
The route to success in the space tourism industry is bound to be a wild ride and Mr Branson is hoping his first mover advantage will bring healthy returns in the long run. Indeed, this high-risk venture could well pay off – it is just a question of when.
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Week's best events around Annapolis: Fall Greek Food Fest, 'Space Travel: Apollo and Beyond,' and
Trumpeter and vocalist Brian Newman is the bandleader and arranger for Lady Gaga's Jazz & Piano show during her Las Vegas residency. He also co-produced Lady Gaga's cover of "La Vie En Rose," featured in the film, "A Star Is Born" and was the bandleader and trumpeter for Lady Gaga's "Cheek to Cheek" album and tour with Tony Bennett.
International bestselling author and poet Michele Marie Neyers will share writing tips and sign copies of her book "3 Lines 30 Days | Unleash Your Inner Poet." 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Saturday. RASA Juice Shop, 90 Maryland Ave., Annapolis. RSVP to the free event at rasajuiceshop.com . 410-570-4597.
Former astronaut Michael Massimino shares stories from space, advice with Maine South High School
With a deadpan sense of humor, Michael Massimino, who earned the distinction of being the first person to Tweet from space and who appeared in several episodes of the sitcom "Big Bang Theory," shared advice, memories of space travel and the importance of not dwelling on mistakes during a Nov. 8 visit to Maine South High School in Park Ridge.
Massimino spoke to a packed auditorium that included students enrolled in space science courses and members of the Maine South Astronomy Club, said science teacher Tom Egan. Groups of science students from Maine East and Maine West High Schools were also in attendance, he said.
NASA astronaut explains why traveling to space could soon be affordable for tourists
HOUSTON, Texas -- Only 536 people in the world know what it is like to be blasted from Earth and launched into space. NASA astronaut Stan Love is one of them.
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"It was an amazing experience," said Love, "[of] driving out to the launch pad, strapping into the gigantic steaming hissing spaceship and having the countdown and then all the shaking and thrust of launch coming up into space and the engine shuts off and you are floating weightlessness."
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Final (summer holiday) frontier! Space hotel to open in matter of years | Science | News |
However, unlike its predecessor, the Von Braun Space Station will have artificial gravity, making both visiting and long-term habitation far more comfortable.
The space hotel will reportedly feature a 620ft (190m)-diameter rotating wheel to simulate a gravitational force similar to that felt on the Moon.
According to The Gateway Foundation, 24 individual modules fitted out with sleeping accommodation and other support functions will surround the wheel.
ISS news: NASA's plan to open 'blow-up hotel' on space station revealed | Science
The space agency has teamed up with Bigelow Aerospace, a US space technology startup company that manufactures and develops expanding cosmic modules. Bigelow has three Space Act agreements whereby they are the sole commercialise of several of NASA's key expandable module technologies including the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) which docked to the Space Station on April 16, 2016.
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Amazon Prime’s “Tomorrow’s World” revealed why there is a growing market for space travel.
How long space voyages could mess with our minds - BBC Future
In 1973, astronauts on the US space station Skylab downed tools and refused to communicate with mission control. They had complained of being overworked, and when their request for more lenient schedule was denied, they took matters into their own hands – spending an entire day admiring the view from the windows and doing little else.
“We had been overscheduled,” astronaut William Pogue later wrote. “We were just hustling the whole day. The work could be tiresome and tedious, though the view was spectacular.”
Space travel to Mars is coming: "It's the backup plan for humanity" - CNNMoney Switzerland
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