Space Adventures is going to use an Armadillo Technologies rocket to launch amateur astronauts 100km into the sky. Nothing new, except that they will do it for half the price of Virgin Galactic’s ticket, and in a real rocket!
Here’s an idea—why don’t we round up every trance act and send them all into space? So we never have to hear that incessant doof doof noise any more. Let’s hope Richard Branson agrees.
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This newly-released image shows the sun rising over Spaceport America. It’s not build yet, but you are looking at the future. The beginning of the real future, the stuff dreams are made of.
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The hybrid Nitrous Oxide rocket that will take SpaceShipTwo to 105km above the Earth at 4000kph (YES!) has fired off for the first time in the southern California desert. Founder, adventurer and cool-guy-at-large Sir Richard Branson is happy:
Warning, middle-class Earthmen. By the end of this post, your dreams of low-cost space travel will be delayed. Above: WhiteKnightTwo Eve’s Maiden Flight. Photo Credit Schereer Scherer.
We all know the Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo can actually fly. Now, Wired has an exclusive video of the plane in action, further squashing any scepticism of the plane.
