A NASA-Boeing partnership took its next steps toward deep-space exploration. Two commercial space flight companies reached new heights, and China says "foreign scientists" can inspect lunar samples it recently collected. VOA's Arash Arabasadi brings us the Week in Space.
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Spacewatch: Bezos's Blue Origin 'really close' to flying humans | Space | The Guardian
Jeff Bezos's space travel company, Blue Origin, says it is "getting really close" to flying humans after the successful completion of its 14th mission into space on 14 January.
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The New Shepard programme is designed to take six space tourists on a sub-orbital flight where they can experience about three minutes of weightlessness. The total flight time for this particular test was 10 minutes and 10 seconds. During that time, the capsule was made to rotate at 2 to 3 degrees a second, so that future passengers can experience a 360-degree view during their flight.
The Science of Space: Rockets, Missiles, & Space Travel by Willy Ley | Tor.com
In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as "alarums and excursions": battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement.
This column, up until now, has been devoted to exploring works of fiction. But looking around my den recently, I realized there have been many non-fiction books that influenced my view of the future. Today, I'm going to look at one of my early favorites, written by a pioneer of rocketry, Willy Ley.
Investing in Space Travel | InvestorPlace
With his next-generation approach to investing, Matt McCall finds better stocks for you to invest in — not the same old companies over-hyped on Wall Street.
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Opinion: The future of spaceflight is female - HoustonChronicle.com
Neil Armstrong. Buzz Aldrin. Alan Shepard. David Scott. Gene Cernan. What do these historic figures all have in common? They’re all members of the elite, legendary group of 12 Apollo astronauts who, to date, have been the only humans to set foot on the surface of the Moon .
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As the director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), an entity funded by NASA’s Human Research Program, I have a bird’s-eye view of what the big concerns are for the health of humans in space. . We are investing in innovative research to meet those challenges to make future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. We have to think ahead so that we can provide the right technology and expertise at the right time.
Canon's New Website Will Let You Take Pictures of Earth From Space | Travel + Leisure
In January, the company unveiled its new website that allows photographers to capture images of the earth using its satellite, the CE-SAT-1, which it launched into space in 2017, according to Hypebeast .
As HypeBeast explained, Canon's satellite carries a PowerShot S110 and an EOS 5D Mark III DSLR with a 40cm Cassegrain-type 3720mm telescope. It currently flies around the earth at 375 miles per hour and can snap images with a resolution inside a 3×2 mile frame.
ARK Investment Plans To Augment Offerings With a Space ETF
The space-related sector has been bolstered by the enormous success of Elon Musk's SpaceX, which has furthered space-based ETF investment.
The latest entrant to the field is disruptive technology portfolio manager and Tesla believer Ark Investment CEO Cathie Wood, who is now planning to launch a new space focused ETF.
Wood and her team plan to actively manage their space ETF. ARK intend to invest in domestic and foreign companies engaged in space exploration and innovation and to hold 40 to 55 stocks.
Planning more space travel? Get platinum | Kitco News
Elon Musk announced plans to send humans to Mars in this decade . The European space agency is also keen to see an astronaut on the moon before we enter the '30s .
"Platinum has long-term associations with space exploration; platinum catalysts in hydrogen fuel cells were part of the pioneering technology that paved the way for the first moon landing in 1969, as well as being used on the Space Shuttle missions," writes the council.
The council notes that a lunar rover using platinum-based fuel cell is being developed jointly by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and Toyota Motor Corporation.
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