For perhaps the first time, the humans inside a spacecraft will — in a strict financial sense — be worth more than the vehicle itself, as billionaires take to the skies this month in a pair of historic suborbital spaceflights that mark a dramatic change in what it takes to become an astronaut.
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Celebrations to mark 60 years since second suborbital spaceflight | Space
As private spaceflight companies stand poised to launch their first crewed suborbital flights, celebrations are marking 60 years since the second U.S. astronaut made the short hop into space.
Coinciding with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic following in his footsteps, museums in Indiana and Kansas have scheduled events for the 60th anniversary of Virgil "Gus" Grissom's Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) mission.
New Plasma Thruster Concept Could Make Space Missions 10x Faster
Space travel might take less time than ever with the new plasma thruster design developed at the US Department of Energy.
Fatima Ebrahimi, a physicist from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) has designed a plasma thruster that is likely to make space travel way faster than any other existing technology.
Virgin Galactic′s Richard Branson set to win space race against Bezos | News | DW | 11.07.2021
The 70-year-old British billionaire is blasting off nine days before Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' own flight. But Bezos' company says Branson is simply not flying high enough.
British businessman Richard Branson is looking to go where no billionaire has gone before by blasting off towards the stars on board a Virgin Galactic vessel later on Sunday.
Space travel - a tax deduction for Cirque de Soleil? - Corporate/Commercial Law - Australia
A recent case from Canada 1 has highlighted the importance of always having in mind the primary purpose of the company or not-for-profit organisation when making decisions on its behalf.
No – the Court held that it was overwhelmingly a personal trip and not a business expense. The Court only allowed a small deduction on behalf of the business.
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), (SPCE) - A Monumental Year For Space Travel | Benzinga
As if 2020 wasn't historical enough, 2021 and more precisely, last week, will be remembered for the U.S. aviation safety regulator approving space flights.
But it was Virgin Galactic that received the green light just one month after a successful test flight from its new homeport in New Mexico that took place in May. Branson will be reportedly flying to space himself in a bid with his rival billionaire Bezos as they race to the final frontier.
Skyroot Aerospace Completes Series A For Affordable, On-Demand Space Travel | Benzinga
What Happened: Founded in 2018 by former Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath, Skyroot Aerospace is India’s leading private space launch company.
In a move to acquire new talent and complete development of its Vikram-1 launch vehicle, the company raised an $11 million Series A. With the funding, the company aims to reach orbit, with 90% less development cost than competitors, as early as next year.
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It used to be a space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Now it's a space race between billionair… https://t.co/ahvxPYRa4Q RBReich (from Berkeley, CA) Fri Jul 09 20:36:27 +0000 2021
Billionaires avoid taxes because they think they can spend the money more efficiently than the government ... and t… https://t.co/aHf23IfF6X DanPriceSeattle (from Seattle, WA) Sun Jul 11 03:07:16 +0000 2021
So many billionaires in private jets flew to Sun Valley to hear @BillGates rave about climate that the FAA had to s… https://t.co/NMvx6cltOc JunkScience Sat Jul 10 20:55:37 +0000 2021
Couldn't we just launch the billionaires into space and save all the trouble? Mikel_Jollett (from Silver Lake, CA) Sun Jul 11 00:23:58 +0000 2021
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