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How Did Space Travel Go Commercial? HBO Series Set to Explore the Real Story
Ever wonder how space exploration stopped being a great national mission and became just another commercial enterprise? HBO will make a new limited series about billionaire Elon Musk and his controversial company SpaceX and how we made that transition is sure to be a focus of the show.
Musk is the Canadian-South African tech entrepreneur who hit the big time with his share in PayPal. He founded SpaceX in 2002, but has enjoyed his greatest business fame as CEO of electric car company, Tesla. He has a portfolio of other cutting edge companies involved in artificial intelligence, brain/computer interfaces and alternative transportation.
RTL Today - Space travel: New crew reaches ISS in record time
The three-member crew launched from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan / © Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/AFP
A three-person crew successfully reached the International Space Station on Wednesday aboard a Russian rocket after the fastest ever journey from Earth of just over three hours.
The mission of the Soyuz space craft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut was of immense importance to Russia's space agency Roscosmos, coming as the SpaceX programme relaunches manned spaceflight from the United States and ignites fresh talk of a space race between the two countries.
Experiencing the next-best thing to space travel with Zero-G and Blade
Editor’s note: TPG attended this special flight as a guest of Blade. While TPG tries to pay full price for all staff travel, we sometimes make exceptions for select events to provide our readers with exclusive access.
Since 2004, Zero-G has been offering thrill-seekers the chance to experience complete weightlessness on Earth through parabolic flights (when an aircraft alternates between rapid upward and downward arcs). New this year for the 2020 tour, Zero-G teamed up with Blade to give Manhattan and Hamptons-based passengers the ultimate adventure bundle, including helicopter transfers to and from their flights.
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Astronaut Cady Coleman urges future generations to share her dreams and their own - masslive.com
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Astronaut Cady Coleman poses with Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station on March 15, 2011. (NASA photo)
Why she grew her hair long might not have been most people's first question to an astronaut, but the answer it produced might have been Cady Coleman's most revealing of all.
"We still don't have many women in the space program — not enough,'' said Coleman, who spoke to more than 130 Western Massachusetts high school, community college and four-year college students and educators by Zoom Thursday night.
The Challenger disaster: we can't say we weren't warned about American hubris | The space shuttle
This conclusion is a particularly easy reach for someone raised in Britain in the 1980s, when the cultural distance between the UK and the US seemed as wide as it must have felt in the 50s. We had four TV channels; they had cable. They had the 31 flavours of Baskin-Robbins; if we were lucky, we had Mr Whippy. And while they were preparing to send a teacher into space, in strike-addled Britain, we were barely sending teachers to school.
What really busts this particular when-America-was-great myth, however, is the programme-makers' forensic retelling of the missteps that lead to the explosion – oversights and incompetence created amid a culture of arrogance, at an agency that believed itself infallible. While the public narrative around the shuttle programme was that it marked the beginning of routine space travel, the truth was that the technology was still experimental.
NASA readies for first asteroid collection attempt - POLITICO
— New FAA launch regulations are "the first step in a hopefully positive process," industry advocates say.
— More than half of people who have gone to space have been American , according to a Space Foundation review. But will that trend continue?
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC KIND: NASA will try for the first time to collect a sample of an asteroid on Tuesday afternoon in a mission engineers hope will spur officials in Washington to support future sample return missions from other objects, including Mars. The mission is targeting the asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid within our solar system that comes close to Earth about every six years.
Without gravity, the fluid around an astronaut's brain moves in weird ways | Space
Fluid around the brain redistributes in the skull during spaceflight, scientists found in a new study of 11 cosmonauts who visited the International Space Station (ISS).
The study, which confirms previous findings about the effects of microgravity on the human brain, was led by Steven Jillings, a doctoral student at the Lab for Equilibrium Investigations and Aerospace (LEIA) at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Previously, Jillings co-authored two studies that examined the effect of spaceflight on the brains of Russian cosmonauts, and recently Jillings took the analytical helm to further explore the topic.
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