Thursday morning the space subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee took up a topic that typically gets little attention: commercial space transportation, and the regulation thereof, as it examined the fiscal year 2012 budget proposal for the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST).
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"Since GAO reported on the commercial space launch industry in 2006 and 2009, the industry has evolved and moved further toward space tourism. Commercial space tourism promises to make human space travel available to the public for the first time.
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The purpose of the May 5 hearing held by the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics is to review the Fiscal Year 2012 budget request submitted by the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation and to examine new initiatives in the request to expand the office's roles and responsibilities.
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Space projects and organisations such as Excalibur, Galactic Suite, Bigelow's Space Complex Alpha and Russian Orbital Technologies plans have created increasing interest in orbital space tourism, and with that, a need for new data and research.
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FAA Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation George Nield testified today about the agency’s proposed FY 2012 budget before the House Committee on Science’s Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
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Fifty years after the first American astronaut rocketed into space, one commercial spaceflight company is hoping to push the envelope even further, with tourist trips around the moon. And now they plan to use a bigger spaceship.
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Today, Space Adventures, the only company that has provided human space missions to the global marketplace, outlined a forecast for commercial orbital spaceflight and announced details of how additional living space will be made available during the company's planned circumlunar mission.
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An estimated 140 private individuals will travel into orbit on a commercial basis through 2020, according to a new market forecast done by Space Adventures.
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Jeff Greason brings us current on XCOR Aerospace activities including their wet leases and payload integrators, and wind tunnel testing of the Lynx spaceplane.
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Reusable commercial rockets will soon be able to take scientists — and tourists — on suborbital spaceflights. Are these vehicles vital research tools, or an expensive dead end?
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Xtraordinary Adventures, LLC, a newly formed space travel agency located in Boca Raton, Florida, has updated their website. Mitchell J Schultz, Space Tourism Specialist, avid space enthusiast, adventurer and world traveler, as its director, created an informative website at http://www.XtraordinaryAdventures.com representing RocketShip Tours, the exclusive agent for XCOR's Lynx space plane.
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Increasing interest in orbital space tourism has been generated by recent developments of projects and organisations such as Excalibur, Galactic Suite and Bigelow's Space Complex Alpha, as well as the Russian Orbital Technologies plans.
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Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens' journey includes his ascension to the Majors, his transformation into a successful hitting coach and an upcoming trip to space.
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A decade after the flight of Dennis Tito, widely if not universally acknowledged as the first space tourist, the company that brokered his flight sees a bright future ahead for commercial human spaceflight.
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Washington D.C. - Today the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing to review the Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 budget request submitted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation (also referred to as AST) and to examine new initiatives in the request to expand the office's roles and responsibilities.
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Space Adventures, the only company that has provided human space missions to the global marketplace, has outlined a forecast for commercial orbital spaceflight and announced details of how additional living space will be made available during the company's planned circumlunar mission.
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Since 2006, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin (LMT) and Boeing (BA) has had a monopoly on launching the biggest U.S. military and spy satellites into space. Now, at the urging of Congress, the U.S. Air Force is laying the groundwork to open the business to competition.
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OK, maybe not lies. Maybe he’s just so completely clueless that he doesn’t know that SpaceX has received less than three hundred millions dollars from NASA. The rant starts off with absurdity:
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In the wake of Elon Musk’s blog post defending SpaceX’s pricing, Lexington Institute COO Loren B. Thompson (who?) has written a reply accusing the South African-born entrepreneur of being a “glib salesman” who has taken “NASA for a ride.”
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Want to be the first person to go around the moon in four decades? It may already be too late. Space Adventures says one client has made a reservation for a circumlunar flight, and the company is in negotiations to sell the second and last open seat for as much as $150 million.
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Space Adventures Chairman Eric Anderson and board member Richard Garriott are holding a teleconference to discuss the company’s circumlunar tourism flight and projections for the future of space tourism. Here are my notes:
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Any road trip requires a pit stop or two for travelers to fill up on gas. And soon, trips to space could be no different. NASA has quietly put out feelers for private companies to build gas stations in space.
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Whenever someone proposes to do something that has never been done before, there will always be skeptics. So when I started SpaceX, it was not surprising when people said we wouldn’t succeed. But now that we’ve successfully proven Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Dragon, there’s been a steady stream of misinformation and doubt expressed about SpaceX’s actual launch costs and prices.
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Read about SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's revelations about the costs and prices for his space launch services and why he thinks he can compete with China on space launch costs and keep America competitive.
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo plane flexed its "feathers" for the first time today during its seventh gliding test flight, marking another milestone on the way to rocket-powered flights — and eventually, suborbital trips to outer space and back.
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