Sentences with phrase «suborbital space»

This launch system is designed to haul six customers and two pilots on suborbital space flights, allowing an out - of - the - seat, zero - gravity experience and out - the - window views of Earth from the black sky of space.

On June 19, Blue Origin launched their reusable New Shepherd rocket and crew capsule into suborbital space over western -LSB-...]

His love of rockets spurred a $ 30 million gamble on SpaceShipOne, which won the X Prize as the first manned craft in suborbital space.

Private spaceflight company Blue Origin is eyeing crewed test flights of its reusable suborbital space vehicle starting next year.

The Ansari X Prize Foundation defines suborbital space as anything above 100 kilometers, or 328,084 feet.

In 2004, the aircraft and rocket maker Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, won the Ansari X prize for SpaceShipOne, the first commercial spacecraft to reach suborbital space.

You can also ask him about suborbital space research or lunar exploration.

In addition to his roles as New Horizons» principal investigator and a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, he helped create Uwingu, a commercial venture focusing on space education and research; the Golden Spike Company, which is planning private - sector moon missions; and the Suborbital Applications Research Group, which is helping researchers get ready for suborbital space studies.

According to Space Affairs, established in 2000 as the «world's first commercial space agency», suborbital space flight will be a possibility for both businesses and tourists within years, rather than decades.

Until now, Blue Origin's rockets had been designed to go into suborbital space, which entails flying more than 62 miles above the earth's surface, but not high enough to make a full revolution.

Though their rockets didn't quite make it to suborbital space, the group did pull off dozens of successful launches.

XCOR is pursuing the latter paradigm with its winged rocket - powered Lynx, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway and blast into suborbital space (roughly 330,000 feet, or 63 miles) powered by an onboard rocket motor before flying back to Earth and landing on a conventional runway.

At $ 250,000 per ticket you too can hitch a ride on Branson's spaceship to suborbital space.

Virgin Galactic, Armadillo and Blue Origin are three of the companies competing to send people into suborbital space (classed as anywhere from 30 to 50 miles up).

France also blasted two pig - tailed macaque monkeys to suborbital space in 1967.

Once your credit card earns you a suborbital space flight, those airline miles no longer have the same cachet.