The Constellation Program is supposed to pick up the ball that NASA dropped in the early 1970s and send the United States triumphantly back into manned space flight. The Space Shuttle will be retired in 2010 with a mostly successful record of going into Earth orbit and returning safely. There were a couple of Space Shuttles that didn’t quite make it and that was the news that everyone got to see. The routine launches and returns were, well, a bit dull and their missions seemed pretty pointless. We are all members of the Science Fiction Generation, we are living in…
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Space Travel– Space Tourism? Virgin Galactic
“The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.” Robert Heinlein When talking about Space Travel and Space Tourism, we still have to look through a list of science fiction stories to find it. Virgin Galactic wants to change that by bringing short hops into Space to the wealthy traveler who has been everywhere. “The deal with Mojave Aerospace Ventures is just the start of what we believe will be a new era in the history of mankind, one day making the affordable exploration of space by human beings…