Sentences with phrase «commercial space tourism»

Also on display are MN Special (2008), a lightweight carbon fiber bicycle designed for Biomega; EADS Astrium Space Plane prototype (2007) designed for commercial space tourism; Kelvin40 (2003), a small jet plane; Zvezdochka trainer for Nike (2004); Nickel Surfboard (2006); Ford 021C urban concept car (1999).

Jeff Bezos addressed the audience in the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado and shared his plans of bringing affordable commercial space tourism that would enable millions of people to work and live in space.

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We haven't found life on Mars yet, and if further missions also turn up nothing, at some point commercial space enterprises such as mining operations or tourism will want to avoid the costs of sterilisation.

«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.

Perhaps space tourism and brief joyrides will be the lesser part of the industry; in the longer term, commercial spacecraft may help us discover minerals or other resources with now - unimaginable properties, or to found colonies that will serve, in the vision of Stephen Hawking, as the ultimate insurance policy for our species.

The Obama plan is to create a diverse industry of taxi fleets that will transport cargo and crew to low Earth orbit, both for NASA and for commercial enterprises such as satellite companies or space tourism.

In fact, Sierra Nevada is mapping out a follow - up strategy, providing not only training and flight services for NASA but commercial ventures and even space tourism.

The commercial space flight company sent its space plane, VSS Unity, for its first untethered test flight in two years, a step towards space tourism

Logsdon says two commercial companies have expressed interest in a long - term low - Earth orbit space station: Axiom Space, a company planning to build a replacement for the ISS for space tourism, manufacturing and advertising purposes among others, and Bigelow Aerospace, which already has an inflated habitat module attached to thespace station: Axiom Space, a company planning to build a replacement for the ISS for space tourism, manufacturing and advertising purposes among others, and Bigelow Aerospace, which already has an inflated habitat module attached to theSpace, a company planning to build a replacement for the ISS for space tourism, manufacturing and advertising purposes among others, and Bigelow Aerospace, which already has an inflated habitat module attached to thespace tourism, manufacturing and advertising purposes among others, and Bigelow Aerospace, which already has an inflated habitat module attached to the ISS.

Sophie is a biologist and science writer who blogs about commercial spaceflight, space tourism, and space destinations.