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Q&A: David W. Brown says space exploration is politically deadly in 'The Mission' | Datebook
The Mission by David W. Brown tells the story of the two-decade effort to send a spacecraft to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter.
Much like the oddball cast of thinkers, dreamers and doers that populate his book "The Mission" — all of them movers and stakeholders in the realm of space exploration — David W. Brown tried to think ahead a few steps.
Brown invested seven years researching and writing his book about the labored efforts to secure a mission to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter, which was found by the Galileo probe to have liquid water beneath its frozen surface.
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US billionaire buys SpaceX flight to orbit with 3 others - ABC News
Isaacman's trip is the latest deal announced for private space travel — and it's No. 1 on the runway for an orbital trip.
"This is an important milestone toward enabling access to space for everyone," Musk said during a press conference Monday from SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. While expensive, these initial private flights will drive down costs over time, he noted.
Last week, a Houston company revealed the names of three businessmen who are paying $55 million apiece to fly to the International Space Station next January aboard a SpaceX Dragon. And a Japanese businessman has a deal with SpaceX to fly to the moon. In the past, space tourists had to hitch rides to the space station on Russian rockets.
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Businessman buys SpaceX Crew Dragon trip to space, plans to take along 3 others
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SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk announced Monday the company is targeting the fourth quarter of this year to launch civilians into low-Earth orbit on a multi-day journey in the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The four-person crew will launch from Kennedy Space Center's launchpad 39A.
One seat will go to a frontline health care worker and another will go toward a person who donates to St. Jude. A third seat will go to an entrepreneur using Shift4 Payments to set up a website.
Allentown, Pennsylvania billionaire Jared Isaacman buys SpaceX flight to orbit the globe, 1 seat
Everything we know about Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space exploration firm
Bezos will therefore be more involved in Blue Origin's stated goal of transforming space travel. It wants to continue to build more rockets and engines to launch people, and other payloads, beyond Earth's orbit, and to ultimately colonize the solar system.
Blue Origin is an American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight company headquartered in Kent, Washington. It's owned by Bezos and is currently headed by CEO Bob Smith.
Bezos, the world's second-richest person, founded Blue Origin in September 2000, with the goal of making space travel cheap, frequent, and more accessible, through reusable launch systems.
America's New Strategy for Space Nuclear Power - Lawfare
Since the late 1960s, the United States has leveraged nuclear energy technology to help power spacecraft. Recent examples include the ongoing New Horizons mission, the Cassini mission to Saturn and the Voyager 1 mission to reach interstellar space for the first time in history. These missions used radioisotope power systems—nuclear energy technology that converts heat into energy by harnessing the natural radioactive decay of plutonium-238 .
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Elon Musk's SpaceX announces 2021 launch of world's first all-commercial mission to orbit. https://t.co/AovJJ6bECC Complex (from New York) Tue Feb 02 13:35:51 +0000 2021
Summary of the news that came out in the last 20mins: - Jeff Bezos announces he's stepping down from CEO role - Al… https://t.co/eZy6NwchYS CNBCJou (from London) Tue Feb 02 21:22:58 +0000 2021
SpaceX announces plans for first all-civilian space flight https://t.co/YYKp3LWF6j CBSNews (from New York, NY) Tue Feb 02 08:20:00 +0000 2021
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