We may not be ready to shuttle off for regular trips to space just yet, but that’s not stopping one group of designers from imagining our future here on the ground. Newly unveiled plans for a floating space hub show just how spectacular even the earth-bound portion of those starry treks might be.
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Devised by the Space Port Japan Association (SPJ)––in coordination with Dentsu, Canaria and Noiz––the striking digital renderings of Spaceport City imagine a new kind of transportation hub focused on the takeoff and landing of space-bound vessels. But what sets the layout apart is its integration with other forms of transportation more commonly experienced today, from cars to boats.
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Space Travel and Taxes: A Cautionary Tale of Shareholder Benefits - Lexology
The Income Tax Act (ITA) includes a shareholder benefit regime, which is intended to ensure that a shareholder is subject to tax on any economic benefit received from a corporation, subject to certain specified exclusions for bona fide business transactions, certain reorganizations, rights offerings, dividend payments, and capital reductions.
The consequence of a shareholder benefit is significant: the value of the benefit is included in the shareholder's income for the year as regular income (taxed at a higher rate than a dividend), but the ITA does not allow a corresponding deduction to the corporation—thus resulting in an element of double tax. For non-resident shareholders, the ITA deems the benefit to be a dividend to which the normal non-resident withholding tax rules apply.
Could We Achieve Interstellar Travel Using Only Known Physics?
The launch of Cassini, on October 15, 1997. This spectacular streak shot was taken from Hangar AF on ... [+] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, with a solid rocket booster retrieval ship in the foreground. For all of our history on Earth, the only way we've ever reached space is through the use of chemical-based fuels.
But there's no need to restrict ourselves to doing things the way we're doing them right now. With the right technology, we could vastly improve how efficient it is to get a large-payload mass, perhaps even one that carried humans on board, to unprecedented distances across the Universe. In particular, there are four technologies that have the potential to take us to the stars on much shorter timescales. Here's how.
NASA Astronauts Set to Return to Earth in SpaceX's Crew Dragon This Weekend — What to Know |
Their journey home from the International Space Station will be the first in SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule.
The Demo-2 mission is a collaboration between NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX , marking the first test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with humans on board. Its crew and astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, both spaceflight veterans, successfully launched in the spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket on May 30 from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and docked with the ISS on May 31.
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The private space race – Orange County Register
This week, American astronauts returned to earth. Their trip to the space station was the first manned launch from the U.S. in 10 years.
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An Obama administration committee had concluded that launching such a vehicle would take 12 years and cost $36 billion.
But this rocket was finished in half that time — for less than $1 billion (1/36th the predicted cost).
That’s because it was built by Elon Musk’s private company, Space X. He does things faster and cheaper because he spends his own money.
Alabama's US Space & Rocket Center may close forever unless it raises $1.5 million in the next 3
(CNN) The US Space & Rocket Center has inspired dreams of scientific exploration and space travel for decades. But now, it's in danger of closing its doors for good because of coronavirus pandemic's financial hits.
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