Tyler Winklevoss, a billionaire Bitcoin ( BTC ) investor and co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, bought the world’s most expensive ticket to space.
The purchase was made back in January 2014, according to a report by cryptocurrency platform Luno on Feb. 24. At the time, Winklevoss acquired a ticket for Virgin Galactic’s passenger-carrying spaceship for 312.5 BTC, which was worth $250,000 at the time. Virgin Galactic is a space tourism company within the British venture capital conglomerate Virgin Group.
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A Look Inside Space Travel - Totalprestige Magazine
Space tourism refers to a fraction of the wider tourism industry that focuses on human activities of travelling into space solely for recreation. Space tourism is known by many other aliases such as citizen space exploration, personal spaceflight, or commercial human spaceflight. There are different dimensions to this booming industry. It includes orbital, suborbital, and lunar space tourism.
Over the past years, many people have indicated a high interest in visiting the space. Leveraging on the public’s fascination with space travel, space travel tourism industry is fastly becoming a billion-dollar enterprise. Therefore, it is not hard to understand the interest in commercial space travel by private business. Many private companies are positioned to making peoples dream of visiting the space a reality.
Dream Job? NASA Is Hiring New Astronauts For Moon Mission
For anyone reminiscing about their childhood, you may remember being asked at school "what do you want to be when you're older?"
Doctor, sports player...astronaut! All very common answers, and although few of us follow through with our childhood dreams and career ambitions, now may be your chance to become employed in one the world's rarest positions.
NASA and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronauts acknowledge the audience after their graduation ... [+] ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas, on January 10, 2020. - The 13 astronauts, 11 from NASA and 2 from CSA, are the first candidates to graduate under the Artemis program and will become eligible for spaceflight, including assignments to the International Space Station, Artemis missions to the Moon, and ultimately, missions to Mars, according to NASA.
Interstellar biological experiments could aid human space travel
On Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, a rocket and spacecraft were launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia carrying tubes of bacteria and bacteriophage, the viruses that prey on bacteria. They are now on their way to the International Space Station (ISS).
Scientists in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry are hoping that by sending them into Earth's orbit, we can learn more about how microbes respond to being in space. In preparing for a future in which long-term and commercial space travel are possible, researchers say it's increasingly important to understand how the bacteria in and on humans — many essential for health — function in this environment, says Vatsan Raman , professor of biochemistry.
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SpaceX Announces Tourist Package, Competes Virgin Galactic, NASA | Observer
SpaceX plans to send up to four tourists on a low-orbit trip in space. Tim Peake / ESA/NASA via Getty Images
After successfully conducting its final in-flight abort test for the new Crew Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX is ready to transport NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) using all-American technology for the first time. But as that happens, the Elon Musk-run company is simultaneously offering a program specifically for amateurs: to take a trip around planet Earth from the height of the ISS.
Space travel breakthrough: 100,000MPH plasma engine to cut travel times to Mars | Science | News
The UK company based in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, has built and tested a miniature prototype plasma thruster, observing exhaust speeds of 100,000mph.
He said: “Speed in space is money. The less time you spend in space, the less equipment you need in space, the less weight you need in space, the less fuel you need to get to space, and hence it all works in your favour.”
Traditional rockets may be our only way of escaping the clutch of Earth’s gravity but once in orbit, burning rocket fuel becomes a costly and ineffective way to push a spacecraft forward.
Virgin Galactic rally's three drivers: UFO space ETF issuer
The skyrocketing space tourism stock has gained a whopping 199% year to date and nearly 310% in the last three months as speculative investors piled into the name, leading some to label it Wall Street's new Tesla .
Explanations for the sudden surge have been few and far between, with Morgan Stanley analysts — who have an "overweight" rating on the name along with a $22 price target — calling for an "overdue" correction on Thursday. The stock cooled off on Friday, falling nearly 7% in intraday trading after snapping an eight-day winning streak .
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