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Space tourism companies such as Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX rely on rockets. Others plan to use balloons to take travelers into the stratosphere.
Florida company Space Perspective plans to fly passengers to the edge of space in a pressurized capsule suspended from a balloon, and tickets can now be reserved for $125,000 a pop. But is it all hot air?
Space Adventures have been in the game a long time now, but how many paying customers have they sent to space? Plus, the idea is about an agency not a broker or provider. Ie, somewhere you can see flights offered by multiple vendors.
No flight list on Virgin Galactic or SpaceX or Blue Origin. In most cases, you would likely just be faced with a form where you give them money and they send you marketing materials about how good it would be – hit “FLY WITH US” an you won’t see any departures list or reviews from happy customers. Slowly slowly catch a monkey.
Thanks ESA. Search their site and they have a page about space travel agencies, and yep – it’s a kids school project about how it would/could be – which indicates they are not quite there yet. lol.
Rocket Breaks claim to be a space travel agency – but nope, just a page full of marketing hype and no list of departures here. When will this finally happen for real?
See the world differently
There are some truly remarkable things to see in this world. There are glistening, snow-peaked mountains, arid deserts, tropical jungles, frozen ice caps, tranquil beaches, crystal clear seas, in fact, there is so much going on in the world, you may even feel like you don... Read more
Not a new material but is likely to be used for countless applications in the future. Great ideas will come out of these buckyball sheets I guess. Bring it on.
Cool. “Our biggest current challenge is embedding these smart sensors into a flexible and compliant material that can expand as the modules are inflated in space,” Kim says.
Sensors in Space: Keeping Astronauts Safe in Inflatable Habitats
At first, inflatable habitats in orbit around Earth may sound like a dangerous idea, given that the vacuum of space is littered with, as NASA says, “millions of pieces of human-made debris or space junk consisting mainly of fragmented rocket bodies and spacecraft parts created by 50 years of explo... Read more
Now that sounds like a good application for buckypaper. According to this it can be used as a lightweight heat shield that can stand up to the impact of hypersonic speeds.
Carbon nanotubes key to next-gen heat shields for hypersonic aircraft
A team of scientists at Florida State University’s High-Performance Materials Institute is using advanced nanomaterials to produce lightweight heat shields that can stand up to the impact of hypersonic speeds. Based on sheets of carbon nanotubes called “buckypaper,” the new experimental shield... Read more
NASA wouldn’t allow anyone else to change anything like that – while its still putting the money in. There were rumours that people could suggest a more futuristic or exciting name for SLS, but yeah bureaucracy won, which it should I guess.
What's in a name? Possible NASA naming contest for SLS nothing new
The Moonspike Kickstarter campaign launched today (Oct. 1) to raise $1 million to send a titanium payload crashing into the lunar surface to kick up a plume observable from orbit, its backers say.
amazing they made this idea a reality! not sure if they used the crowdfunding money or if nasa paid. Got to schedule a visit, what a place to go before i get too old.
Media Invited to Newly-Restored Apollo Mission Control Center
Fifty years ago, an unparalleled team of experts in a mission control center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston landed the first humans on the Moon. Media are invited to join NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine for the reopening of this historic and newly-restored facility at 9 a.m. CDT Frid... Read more
Until the 21st century, almost every jetpack was in fact a rocket pack.
You can buy rocket powered jetpacks already – not sure how they would work in space as the brakes need to be added, heh.
Space Jet Packs are such a great idea. Not sure if you need rocketry for them though.
Unless you want them to go fast! Imagine, zooming between space stations in a fast spacesuit, great idea.
Check out this company researching flights into space using ballons https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/space-tourism-firms-plan-to-use-balloons-to-go-to-space-in-2024.html
You can get a ride to the edge of space in a hot air balloon. However, it comes at one hefty price tag
Virgin Galactic is one of the several companies currently researching commercial space flights. Seems like they are getting closer every year!
Currently, you have to shop around to see what is on offer, this article provides a few tips on where to start looking though,
Space Adventures have been in the game a long time now, but how many paying customers have they sent to space? Plus, the idea is about an agency not a broker or provider. Ie, somewhere you can see flights offered by multiple vendors.
No flight list on Virgin Galactic or SpaceX or Blue Origin. In most cases, you would likely just be faced with a form where you give them money and they send you marketing materials about how good it would be – hit “FLY WITH US” an you won’t see any departures list or reviews from happy customers. Slowly slowly catch a monkey.
Thanks ESA. Search their site and they have a page about space travel agencies, and yep – it’s a kids school project about how it would/could be – which indicates they are not quite there yet. lol.
Rocket Breaks claim to be a space travel agency – but nope, just a page full of marketing hype and no list of departures here. When will this finally happen for real?
Not a new material but is likely to be used for countless applications in the future. Great ideas will come out of these buckyball sheets I guess. Bring it on.
Cool. “Our biggest current challenge is embedding these smart sensors into a flexible and compliant material that can expand as the modules are inflated in space,” Kim says.
Now that sounds like a good application for buckypaper. According to this it can be used as a lightweight heat shield that can stand up to the impact of hypersonic speeds.
Whatever they call it, its gonna be a major light-show.
Like it, better than some of the random names they generated here.
NASA wouldn’t allow anyone else to change anything like that – while its still putting the money in. There were rumours that people could suggest a more futuristic or exciting name for SLS, but yeah bureaucracy won, which it should I guess.
not sure if moonspike are still attracting crowdfunds for this, but it looked like it was going to happen at one point.
amazing they made this idea a reality! not sure if they used the crowdfunding money or if nasa paid. Got to schedule a visit, what a place to go before i get too old.
Half a million raised for this on kickstarter already in progress, i think