Jim Benson, founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SpaceDev (OTCBB: SPDV), will be presented with the first “Business Leadership in Science and Technology Award” by the San Diego Regional […]
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This Was The Year Space Tourism Finally Took Off
WASHINGTON — The dream of opening space to the general public was given a tremendous boost in 2004 with SpaceShipOne’s prize-winning suborbital jaunt and congressional legislation to help establish a space travel industry in the United States. But even the biggest champions of commercial spaceflight acknowledge that a vital space tourism market is still years from becoming reality.
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NASA Chandra Observatory Finds Evidence for Swarm of Black Holes Near the Galactic Center
A swarm of 10,000 or more black holes may be orbiting the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, according to new results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This may represent the […]
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Radio Telescopes Will Add to Cassini-Huygens Discoveries
When the European Space Agency’s Huygens spacecraft makes its plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan on January 14, radio telescopes of the National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy […]
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SpaceDev Chairman Weighs-in on Landmark Commercial Space Legislation
SpaceDev founding chairman and chief executive officer, Jim Benson, praised the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act passed by the Senate late last week and urges President Bush to sign it […]
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Ultra-Sharp Mars-Bound Camera Delivered
The camera that will take thousands of the sharpest, most detailed pictures of Mars ever produced from an orbiting spacecraft was delivered today for installation on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. […]
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Astronomers Uncover a Baby Galaxy in a Grown-Up Universe
The baby galaxy, I Zwicky 18, might represent the only opportunity for astronomers to study the building blocks from which galaxies are formed Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a University […]
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Space Adventures’ Client Sets Guinness World Record
80 year-old Seattle resident becomes world’s oldest woman to experience zero-gravity Neither age nor gravity stopped 80 year-old Dorothy Simpson from flying into record books. Recently, Mrs. Simpson officially became […]
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National Air and Space Museum Launches Space Hangar at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Visitors to the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center will get their first chance to explore the remarkable holdings in its newly filled space hangar on Monday, […]
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Spacecraft to Launch Oct 26 With First Spacecraft-based Ecliptic RocketCam™ On Board
The first spacecraft with an Ecliptic RocketCam™ video system on board is scheduled for launch around 11:15 a.m. PDT by a Pegasus XL winged rocket on October 26 (Tuesday) off […]
