by michael doornbos
I’ve spent the last few days reading the Omni Magazines from 1978 and 1979. All of them in fact. I’m struck by something: we’re still talking about most of these same ideas as things for the future…
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Ashton Kutcher Signs Up As Virgin Galactic’s 500th Customer
LONDON, England — Richard Branson revealed via his blog today that Virgin Galactic has booked
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Space Tourism Pegged To Be Worth $1 Billion In 10 Years
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 20 (Reuters) – The Obama administration is preparing for a space
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Red Bull Stratos Athlete Gets Off On 13th Floor, Err Mile (Photo Essay)
Baumgartner Passes Test Through Death Zones ROSWELL, N.M. -– Austria’s Felix Baumgartner jumped out of
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TSC OK’s Suppliers To Fabricate Virgin Galactic Spaceship
MOJAVE, Calif. — MOJAVE, Calif. ― The Spaceship Company (TSC), the aerospace production joint venture
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Interorbital Systems To Lift SpaceDiver On Record Attempt
MOJAVE, Calif. — German SkyDiver/FreeFlyer Olav Zipser will ride a specially modified Interorbital Systems rocket
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Near Space Corp. Building New High-Altitude Balloon Facility
PALO ALTO, Calif. and TILLAMOOK, Or. — Near Space Corporation (NSC), one of seven suborbital
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SwRi Researchers To Fly On XCOR Lynx I Experimental Tests
BOULDER, Colo. — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has reached an agreement with XCOR Aerospace, Inc.
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Astronauts4Hire Announces Commercial Astronaut Training Programs
PALO ALTO, Calif. -– After more than a year of development, Astronauts for Hire (A4H)
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Virgin Galactic Selects NanoRacks For Payload Mounting Racks
PASADENA, Calif. — Virgin Galactic LLC, the world’s first commercial spaceline, announced today that it
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XCOR Rounds Another Corner On Its Way To Space
PALO ALTO, Calif. — In the biggest news to come out of the Next Generation
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Commentary
Getting to Where We’re Going Means Something New
Orbit
Miles O’Brien Reports: SpaceX Readies for Launch – Showdown Over Dragon Capsule Seat
On a PBS NewsHour broadcast, Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on the upcoming SpaceX flight.
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Planetary
NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
PASADENA, Calif. — Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the
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News
NASA Langley’s SCIFLI Team To Take Images Of SpaceX COTS2 Launch
HAMPTON, Va. — A team from NASA’s Langley Research Center will have its eyes, cameras
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News
Ball Aerospace Submits Solar Electric Propulsion Concept to NASA
BOULDER, Colo. — Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has submitted its mission concept study to
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Video
Moonandback Interview with Ben Brockert, part 2 – Future Plans
At the recent Space Access Conference in Phoenix, Ben Brockert continues his interview talking about
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News
Robonaut 2, the Legless Patent Dynamo
by andrew rush Even though it doesn’t have any legs (yet), Robonaut 2 is
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Sub orbit
XCOR Aerospace Announces Lynx Suborbital Flight Winner
MOJAVE, Calif. — XCOR Aerospace today announced the grand prize winner of a trip aboard
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News
Elton John, ‘The Rocket Man’, Greets the ‘Rocket Men’ (Video)
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Continuing the celebration of André Kuipers’ music in space, British rock
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Environment
Our Weather Forecasting About To Get A Whole Lot Better
GREENBELT, Md. — NASA has completed commissioning of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP),
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Video
Moonandback Interview with Ben Brockert, part 1 – The STIG Rocket
Ben Brockert, an Engineer for Armadillo Aerospace, talks with MM about the developement and experience
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Orbit
Expedition 31 Trio Blasts Off for International Space Station
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba, Russian Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight
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Video
Moonandback Interview with David Masten, part 2 – Opportunities & Updates
Dave Masten talks with MM about his belief that NASA should take ownership of the
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Commentary
The Real Story Behind the “Manned” Space Program
by edward wright All organizations that have enduring for any length of time have
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Thursday 17 May 2012