Vinny Thomas, comedian and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me guest writer, imagines traveling in space with the Bezos brothers.
There was a bit of news this week that might have seemed, well, more surreal than real. Jeff Bezos announced he and his brother are launching themselves off of Earth. Chicago writer and comedian Vinny Thomas took this to heart. He felt genuinely moved, so moved in fact...
Blue Origin: Bidder pays $28 million to visit space with Jeff Bezos | News | DW | 13.06.2021
Bezos, the owner of the Blue Origin space travel company, will venture beyond Earth's atmosphere on the New Shepard spacecraft next month.
An unidentified bidder on Saturday shelled out $28 million (€23 million) for a chance to visit space with Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos next month.
Blue Origin held an online auction for one person to join Bezos on the trip, which ended a month-long bidding process.
Jeff Bezos going to space: How Blue Origin rocket will launch and land
When Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and three others blast off to the edge of space on July 20, they'll have lots more room and much bigger windows than the cramped modules of Apollo moon landing missions.
Aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket will be Bezos, his brother Mark , and two other occupants – one unnamed, and the other who bid $28 million for a ticket in a charity auction Saturday. For an 11-minute flight, that's more than $2.5 million per minute.
Purdue engineers help develop refrigerator for space travel - Indianapolis Business Journal
Engineers from Purdue University , Whirlpool Corp. and Air Squared Inc. have developed a refrigerator prototype to help solve the problem of astronauts not having a fridge to store food for long missions.
A few attempts have been made to design a fridge for space travel since the 1969 moon landing. Some of the prototypes actually made it into space, but none of them worked as desired for longer trips.
"NASA had tested three fridges in the 1990s on space shuttles," said Leon Brendel, a Purdue mechanical engineering doctoral student. "The documentation of those shows that their performance was rather low and that maintenance was needed almost after every flight. In the 2000s, a refrigerator in space even stopped operating."
Katherine Johnson's memoir charts her bold trajectory to NASA and beyond
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir Katherine Johnson, Joylette Hylick & Katherine Moore, with Lisa Frazier Page Amistad (2021)
It begins with exuberance, describing how public recognition changed her final years, from attending the Oscars in 2017 to being honoured with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 — and getting a kiss from president Barack Obama. After that, Johnson unfolds how a mathematics prodigy from White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, became a 'human computer' for some of the most watched rocket launches in history.
Commercial space travel gaining foothold in tourism industry
Vacationing in space is quickly becoming a reality, with several companies launching commercial programs to take civilians to outer space. Questions about sustainability and risk still remain, and the price tag is out of reach for everyone but the ultrawealthy. Mark Strassmann has more.
- Well, some people's summer vacation plans are truly out of this world. Billionaire Jeff Bezos is planning a joy ride into the cosmos next month. And today, someone bid $28 million to join him. In all, the auction drew more than 7,500 bids from 159 countries. Here's CBS's Mark Strassmann.
Not So Fast: Five Books Featuring Sublight Space Travel | Tor.com
Faced with the improbability of superluminal travel, many authors have decided to opt for sublight starships. True, sublight travel has significant challenges (slow travel, high energy demands) but at least it doesn't necessarily break causality. Is it possible to tell interesting stories without faster-than-light travel? Yes indeed! Consider these five tales of sublight exploration and trade.
The natives of the planet Niond (or as humans deem it, Ormazd) are superficially human, but in important ways they are more like ants and bees. Each community has a ruling queen who produces all the children. The workers and warriors are sterile females, while males are relegated to reproductive duties until such time as they are deemed surplus to needs and eliminated. But Ormazd as a whole isn't unified.
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Discovery's 'Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?' Will Send 'Ordinary' Person to ISS
A source who requested anonymity told Messier that Virgin Galactic plans to fly Branson on a test flight of its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane over the 4 July weekend. That would position Branson to beat Bezos to space by around two weeks.
There are likely to be many wealthy or well-connected people who can afford to travel on one of Musk's, Bezos's or Branson's flights. 'Who Wants to Be an Astronaut' is more focused on everyday people, who can nonetheless rise to the intense challenge that being an astronaut requires.
Unlikely groups partner for Space and Science focused reading event
The "Listen & Learn Space & Science" June reading event from the Lansing Area Federal Credit Union (LAFCU) will take place on Wednesday, June 30, at 7:00 p.m.
The event will allow young space enthusiasts to virtually visit Abrams Planetarium, at Michigan State University, to learn about the summer sky in Michigan. Impression 5 Science Center will present a science demonstration about space travel and the effects of space's atmosphere. And, as with other "Listen and Learn" events, a book will be the superstar: The award-winning children's book "Rocket Says Look Up!
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