Sentences with phrase «space tourism got»

Space tourism got a $ 10 million boost in the early morning of October 4 over California's Mojave Desert when the rocket glider SpaceShipOne captured the Ansari X Prize, awarded to the first private, manned craft to venture into space twice within a two - week period.

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Space tourism company World View just got a Silicon Valley - boost toward its goal of sending humans to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.

While many of the space industry's heavyweights — Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — spent 2016 talking up their respective ambitions to go to Mars or build a space tourism business, Moon Express might be the company closest to getting humans to a place they haven't visited in 44 years.

These are very interesting stats from AirBNB, so we thought we would share this AirBNB press release with Hong Kong startups: the tourism industry in Hong Kong is growing and besides a handful of travel startups in Hong Kong like Klook and Sam the Local we're looking to find out who else is in this space or if you are looking to get into TravelTech in Asia.

«We're about to see a rapid increase in different parts of the industry, whether it's space tourism or commercial involvement to allow NASA to get lower - cost transportation to low - Earth orbit,» Nield told the House space subcommittee at a hearing in May.

Panelists reflected on how women of color can make our voices heard in the travel space and get brands to recognize us as influencers, how we can use our media to inspire other women of color to travel more, and how tourism boards and public relations firms can target women of color to promote their brands.

The United Kingdom is getting ready to launch new laws governing space tourism, reports blogger Jesse Londin at Space Law Pspace tourism, reports blogger Jesse Londin at Space Law PSpace Law Probe.