NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 28: Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Galactic, poses for photographs ... [+] before ringing a ceremonial bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to promote the first day of trading of Virgin Galactic Holdings shares on October 28, 2019 in New York City. Virgin Galactic Holdings became the first space-tourism company to go public as it began trading on Monday with a market value of about $1 billion.
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Why did the stock rocket upward? The company made a three-hour positioning flight. It flew its passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, from Mojave Airport in California to its commercial headquarters at Spaceport America's Gateway to Space building in New Mexico.
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NASA science and cargo head to Space Station
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Various pundits will answer this question in various ways, but here's how I prefer to look at it. All of the space economy is divided into three parts: old space companies, new space companies, and what I'd call space-adjacent companies.
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What's the first thing you think of when you think about space exploration? Rocket ships, of course! And for the longest time, American rocket ships were built by just a handful of companies.
All four of these companies are still doing decent business building rockets and selling them to the government for occasional rocket launches. They're also all involved in the development of a new mega-rocket for NASA, the Space Launch System, or SLS.
Musk's SpaceX will likely launch first crewed flight near May 7
Elon Musk's SpaceX has made major headway towards making space travel more accessible and efficient thanks to reusable rockets, but until now its focus has been on uncrewed flights. Then last month, Musk said the company was planning for a launch sometime in Q2 of the year; i.e., between April and June. Now we have our clearest indication of when that date may be.
According to Eric Berger of Ars Technica , the current working date for the SpaceX Demo-2 launch is May 7.
Many things are taking place:
Christina Koch returns to Earth after record-breaking space mission | Science | The Guardian
On Thursday the US astronaut was at last granted that wish, when the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, carrying Koch, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov and Italy's Luca Parmitano, landed in Kazakhstan, almost a year after Koch last set foot on earth.
"We caught each other's eye and we knew that we were really honoured with this opportunity to inspire so many, and just hearing our voices talk to Mission Control, knowing two female voices had never been on the loops, solving those problems together outside – it was a really special feeling."
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When I visited the Kennedy Space Center, I couldn't wait to see Launchpad 39A. From that exact spot in Florida, humans first broke free from the Earth's gravitational pull to visit our neighbor, the Moon. Besides the Apollo program, 39A was used as the launchpad for dozens of space shuttle missions. I believed that standing in such a historic location would make me feel closer to space without ever needing to leave Earth.
Pitt students reach new heights with NASA - The Pitt News
NASA's Student Spaceflight Experiments Program chose Pitt students Marissa Defallo and Nikolas Vostal's aluminum corrosion experiment to fly this summer to the International Space Station onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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While many college students spend their summer waiting tables, two teams of Pitt students will be at Cape Canaveral watching experiments they designed fly to the International Space Station.
When Marissa Defallo, a junior mechanical engineering major, worked at American Airlines for her engineering co-op, she spent a lot of time working with aluminum. Airplanes, as well as satellites, are made of the material because it is lightweight and flexible. When looking for an experiment to be performed onboard the space station, she instinctively began to think about the material that makes up the better part of the satellite — aluminum.
Zero Gravity Flights Coming to a City Near You in 2020 | Travel + Leisure | Travel + Leisure
Zero-G, a company that invites guests on a specially modified Boeing 727 to experience weightlessness, has long called Las Vegas home. But now, it’s expanding its reach to include flights in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Austin, Houston, Miami, New York, Orlando, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and various stops in New England.
“It’s like being an astronaut,” Zero Gravity Corp. CEO Matt Gohd told the Reno Gazette-Journal about the experience .
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Now that SpaceShipTwo has joined our operations team in NM it will embark on the final stages of its flight test pr… https://t.co/MqjaJUtuje virgingalactic (from Earth) Fri Feb 14 05:20:12 +0000 2020
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