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NASA selects its first commercial module for private ISS space travel
NASA has announced via a new press release that Axiom Space out of Houston will be the first company to provide NASA with a commercial destination module for the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA is fast approaching its goal to commercialize the ISS and enable private astronauts to visit the floating laboratory in low-Earth orbit. The press release reveals that NASA has selected Axiom Space as the first company to provide NASA with a module that will attach to the ISS's Node 2 forward port. This is an important milestone for both NASA and the coming low-Earth orbit economy.
‘Golden age of space travel’ is just beginning, aerospace space experts say at El
The United States is in the dawn of a new space age and much of it is driven, like the mission that put a man on the moon, by companies in Southern California, according to George Whitesides, the CEO of Virgin Galactic, who spoke at a recent forum on the future of space commercialization.
“We've been on an amazing journey to basically revolutionize how humanity interacts with space,” Whitesides said at the Future Forum, hosted by the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, at El Segundo’s Cross Campus last week. “We want to democratize space so it moves from a region where it's really a province of government employees to something that’s open to us all.”
'Freezing' our bodies is the key to long-distance space travel — but can we do it?
Long-distance space travel, traveling at sub-light speeds, will require a way to make the journey with a crew of aging humans. While it's possible to avoid some of that through time dilation (a quirk of physics that slows down time for anything that speeds up), humans wouldn't save a large amount of time until the ship reaches 90% of the speed of light.
Assuming we could build ships that can go that fast, we could cut aging in half. At 99.5% light speed, we would age at only ten percent relative to an observer at rest.
In case you are keeping track:
REVIEW: 'Avenue 5' takes space travel in new direction | Television | siouxcityjournal.com
Hugh Laurie, left, stars as the captain of "Avenue 5," a luxury spaceship owned by a rich billionaire (Josh Gad).
Before we get a new "Star Trek" series, "Veep's" Armando Iannucci shows up with "Avenue 5," an irreverent look at space travel that could be what "The Orville" was aiming for all along.
Set several decades in the future, the HBO comedy suggests what space travel might be like when profit-minded entrepreneurs are in charge.
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