Sentences with phrase «says golden spike»
No corporate sponsors have stepped up yet, but preliminary talks are under way to sell seats to space agencies in Asia and Europe, says Golden Spike CEO and former NASA science chief Alan Stern.
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Unlike more consumer - focused space exploration missions, like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — which will take passengers into sub-orbital spaceflight for $ 200,000 — Golden Spike's founder says its company's clientele will be comprised mainly of governments and corporations.
In a statement responding to Golden Spike's announcement, a NASA spokesperson said: «This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama administration's overall space policy — to create an environment where commercial space companies can build upon NASA's past successes, allowing the agency to focus on the new challenges of sending humans to an asteroid and eventually Mars.»
Although several of the firm's directors have NASA experience, Golden Spike will be a purely private enterprise that will not seek government funding, Stern says.
Professor Colin Waters, who led the study, said: «Of the 65 «golden spikes» of the Geological Time Scale currently ratified, all but one are located in strata that accumulated on the sea floor, the one exception being the ice core used to define the base of the Holocene Epoch.
I don't use awards as validation, but when all is said and done, if the choice is between a director like Steven Soderbergh and Spike Lee, they'll give it to the golden white boy every time.»
But if you want to head out there, more power to you,» said Nickie Smith, an employee of the Golden Spike National Historic Site visitor center, as she handed over a...
They say the only other candidate that meets the criteria for defining a geological epoch and setting another «golden spike» is 1964.