Space tourism

Night landing in the desert for the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, 7/9/2024

Starliner spacecraft lands safely unmanned after 3-month mission with multiple technical issues

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The malfunctions experienced by the Starliner during the launch led to NASA choosing not to return the crew via Starliner, and instead the astronauts will be returned in February 2025 via SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. In fact they will be used
Testing one of the engine components of the Starliner spacecraft on the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

Is the task possible? NASA and Boeing are moving forward with assessments for the Starliner flight test back to Earth

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Boeing performed a hot ignition of 27 engines on the Starliner. Photo: NASA

Boeing performs critical Starliner engine test as NASA plans astronaut return

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Starliner mission commander Butch Williams and astronaut Sunita Williams on the International Space Station, July 10, 2024. Photo: NASA Television

The astronauts who arrived on the Starliner spacecraft may remain on the space station until August

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Last week, the spacecraft commander performed a manual flight test to test the Starliner's performance, and it performed well without part of the thrusters. At the same time, Boeing is conducting experiments on identical propellers, to try to locate the
The Starliner spacecraft in a photo of the Boeing crew test flight docked to the forward port of the Harmony module as the International Space Station orbited 423 km above the Mediterranean Sea. Credit: NASA

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is stuck on the space station

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NASA and Boeing engineers continue to examine the helium leak from the spacecraft's engines and now the planned landing date of the Starliner is June 26. The extended crew has enough food, water and other supplies and there are no emergencies
The Starliner spacecraft separates from the Centaur launcher. Illustration: Boeing

The role of helium in the Starliner spacecraft

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We will try to briefly describe the role of helium in the Starliner's propulsion system, where are the risks when there is such a leak and why, in my opinion, Boeing's engineers approved the flight even though they knew before the launch
The seven members of the Expedition 71 crew pose together with the two test flight crew members for a team photo at the space station. Front from left, Sonny Williams, Oleg Kononenko, and Butch Wilmore. Second row from left, Alexander Grabenkin, Tracy S. Dyson, and Mike Barratt. In the last row, Nikolai Chub, Janet Epps, and Matthew Dominick. Credit: NASA TV

Helium leaks and engine failures: the big drama of the Starliner docking at the space station

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As the Starliner began its approach to the space station, five engines of the reaction control system failed during the flight. The mission teams performed a series of warm-up tests that restarted four of the engines while the crew navigated the
Launch of Boeing's manned spacecraft, June 5, 2024. Public relations photo

Boeing's Starliner manned spacecraft took off for the first time to the International Space Station

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It is expected to arrive at the space station tomorrow, 6/6. On board the Starliner are veteran NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sonny Williams. Both astronauts are former US Navy test pilots and together have
Anastasia Myers while in weightlessness in Virgin Galactic's Unity spacecraft on Commercial Flight 02. In the background is her mother Kisha Shaf with an Israeli flag on her arm. Photo: Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic space flight 02 landed safely, consisting of four women and only two men

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One of the space tourists is Kisha Shaf, who is married to an Israeli and wears the Israeli flag. In addition, her 18-year-old daughter Anastasia Myers flew - the first combination of mother and daughter on a space flight. During the flight arrived
Eitan Stiva in the Coppola Observation Module on the International Space Station

The landing of AX-1 and Ethan Stiva: The Dragon is on its way to land around 20:00

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Monday night there will be two broadcasts at 01:30 from the transmitter of the departure from the space station to the Dragon spacecraft, 03:30 the disconnection of the Dragon. The article also includes videos taken during the mission
An infographic showing the space station planned by the Axiom company. PR photo

Ax-1: Why the private mission to the International Space Station is a game changer, and details on the space station Axiom is seeking to build

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Stephen Attenborough, Chief Marketing Officer, Virgin Galactic. From a digital conference of the JUNIPER company

"The great gift of space flights is the opportunity to observe the Earth from the outside and see how fragile it is"

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This is what Stephen Attenborough, Chief Customer Officer at Virgin Galactic says during a virtual conference held by the Juniper company. Enborough's talk was broadcast from Virgin Galactic's Astronaut Office in London
Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Galactic and representatives of the associations arrived at the home of the winner, Kisha Shaf. PR photo, Virgin Galactic,

A resident of Antigua married to an Israeli and their daughter will fly into space after winning the Virgin Galactic lottery

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The raffles were conducted by the fundraising platform Omaze and Sir Richard Branson raised an expected $1.7 million in grants to support the Space for Humanity project to democratize space travel
The crew of NS-18. Pictured from left to right: Dr. Chris Boschwiesen, William Shatner, Audrey Powers and Glenn de Vries. Public relations photo, Blue Origin

Captain Kirk - ninety-year-old William Shatner flew into space and broke the record for the oldest person in space

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However, this is a flight that lasted just a few minutes in the second manned suborbital flight of the New Shepherd spacecraft of the Blue Origin company owned by Jeff Bezos
Richard Branson and the passengers who accompanied him on the first suborbital flight. PR photo, Virgin Galactic

Interstellar contamination | angle

In recent weeks, space tourism has become a reality for two of the world's richest men. Is it an expensive but harmless amusement, or another blow to the earth's battered atmosphere? We went out to check
The Blue Origin spacecraft lands safely after its first successful launch with astronauts including CEO Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, and two astronauts. Screenshot

Successful launch and landing of Jeff Bezos' capsule (video)

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16:20 The launcher successfully landed on its feet with the help of an auxiliary engine. 16:18 The spacecraft activated parachutes 16:12 The spacecraft was successfully launched
Richard Branson, founder and CEO of Virgin Galactic hovers in the passenger compartment of the suborbital spaceship SpaceShip2 on the Unity 22 mission on July 11, 2021. PR photo, Virgin Galactic

The billionaire space race is a publicity stunt but may help promote the space economy

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This is according to an analysis by PITCHBOOK. According to the analysts, before flying humans into space, advanced uses of satellites should be exhausted and the problem of space debris should be addressed, but the budget for this may be reached thanks to these gimmicks.
Former astronaut Chris Hadfield bestows space wings on Sir Richard Branson after the successful flight to the edge of space. Screenshot from the Virgin Galactic YouTube channel.

Richard Branson beat Jeff Bezos in the space race * took off with 5 others to give way

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The spaceship or rather the Spaceship 2 rocket plane took off for the mission known as Unity 22 from the Virgin Galactic Space Center in New Mexico on a carrier plane and when they reached the desired altitude they activated the rocket engines
With room for six astronauts, the spacious and compact crew capsule is comfortably furnished and each passenger gets their own window seat. PR photo, Blue Origin

The winner will be chosen to fly together with Jeff Bezos and his brother on July 20 into space * will pay 23 m

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The yet-to-be-revealed winner together with the Bezos brothers will fly for a suborbital flight - that is, reaching an altitude of 100 kilometers, staying for a few minutes in low gravity and observing the curvature of the Earth, and landing
The event announcing the second Israeli in space at Beit Hanasi, 16/11/2020. Photo: Mark Neiman, CEO

The second Israeli on the way to space announced President Rivlin, the Ramon Foundation and the Ministry of Science

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Eitan Stiva, a former fighter pilot, is expected to take off at the end of 2021 in the Crew Dragon spacecraft as a space tourist for about five days.
Astronaut Sunita Williams runs an Israeli experiment on the International Space Station. Photo by NASA

NASA will allow private astronauts to fly to the space station * The rate is $35 per night - up to 30 days per tourist

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The cover of the book Satellites and the New Space, published by Efi Meltzer, courtesy of Prof. Haim Ashad

The New Space Revolution - from the book "Satellites and the New Space"

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Lockheed Martin's lunar lander. Illustration Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Moon Lander. Lockheed Martin illustration

Lockheed Martin presents the concept of the manned spacecraft for a reusable flight to the moon

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Virgin Galactic Announces First Successful Test of Spacecraft's Rocket Engine Since 2014 Crash

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The planned private space station Aurora, which will serve as a hotel in space. The station will be built in a modular manner. Illustration: Orion Span

A new company enters the field of space hotels. Orion Span announced the launch of Aurora in 2021

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Watch: what it looks like to fly to the edge of space and back in a Blue Origin vehicle

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The successful landing of the New Shepard launcher yesterday (December 12) at the Blue Origin launch site in West Texas. Source: Blue Origin.

Blue Origin is taking another step towards tourist flights into space

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Virgin's Unity spacecraft is carried aboard its mother plane on a test flight on September 8, 2016. Source: Virgin Galactic.

Saudi Arabia and Virgin Galactic will cooperate in space flights, satellite launches and space tourism

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Blue Origin founder, tycoon Jeff Bezos, unveils the company's launch site at the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida in a ceremony held in 2015, from which the new launcher New Glen will be launched.

Delivery service to the moon: Blue Origin offers to build a lander to deliver supplies to a manned base on the moon

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Simulation of the Dragon 2 spacecraft. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX plans to launch two space tourists next year for a flight around the moon

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MARS DRAGON - a spacecraft that SPACEX plans to launch to Mars. PR photo

Engineer the future of space exploration

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Virgin Galactic has received a license from the Federal Aviation Administration to test its spacecraft

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The new model of Spaceship 2 spacecraft, "Unity". Source: Virgin Galactic.

More than a year after the crash of the spaceship 2, Virgin Galactic unveiled the new model of the spacecraft, which will take tourists to the edge of space

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The landing of the first stage of the Blue Origin Bell launcher. A step on the way to cheapening the suborbital flight. Photo: PR

The dream has become a reality: Blue Origin has successfully launched and re-landed a suborbital space launcher

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A simulation of Dream Chaser docked at the International Space Station. Source: Sierra Nevada Corporation.

Meet "Dream Chaser", the new member of NASA's fleet of supply spacecraft to the International Space Station

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Artist's illustration of the Juno spacecraft near Jupiter. Image: NASA

Summary of the year 2015 in space, part 2016 - what is expected in XNUMX

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The vertical landing of the New Shepard launcher. Screenshot: Blue Origin

Blue Origin succeeded for the first time in the history of the space program in safely landing a reusable space launcher

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A rendering of the Dream Chaser spacecraft landing at the Ellington Spaceport in Houston. Illustration: Houston Airports Authority

Ellington Airport in Houston has been licensed as a spaceport

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The nucleus of Comet 67P Churyumov-Grasimenko as imaged by Rosetta's Navigation Camera, December 7, 2014

Summary of 2014 Part I - Man in space: the landing on the comet, the test flight of Orion and the space disasters

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Richard Branson is practicing flying Spaceship-2. From the Virgin Galactic website

"The damage to the space tourism industry will only be in the short term, it is clear to everyone that there is a risk in technological developments"

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Landing (previous) of the spacecraft Spaceship-2. From the Virgin Galactic website

Tourist spaceship Spaceship-2: no second chance for landing * Branson: the project will continue

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One of the two pieces of the Spaceship 2 spacecraft tail on the ground in the Mojave desert, minutes after the spacecraft disintegrated during a test flight. Photo: Mujabi's army and emergency response team

Updates from the crash site of the spaceship-2 tourist spacecraft

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Debris of the SpaceShip 2 spacecraft that crashed during a test flight in the Mojave Desert, October 31, 2014. From Twitter

Second space accident in a week, one dead and one injured in the crashes of Virgin's Spaceship-2 spacecraft planned to fly space tourists

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A (imaginary) research station on the moon. Illustration: shutterstock

What is required of space colonies on other planets or at least of research stations? Part One

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Commercial Crew logo. Image: NASA

Boeing and SpaceX win NASA tender to fly astronauts to space station

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Space elevator. Illustration: shutterstock

A "Space Elevator" will be built in the "Technorush" competition at the Technion

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Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft is docked at the space station with crew members on board. Illustration: Boeing

Boeing's first spacecraft will take off in 2017 on a test flight to the International Space Station

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Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket launch on January 9, 2014 followed by the launch at the Wallops Space Center, Virginia on a supply mission to the International Space Station on the Cygnus spacecraft. Photo: NASA

Another successful launch for a private American supply spacecraft to the space station

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Landing test, SPACESHIPTWO, October 2010. Photo: PR, Virgin Galactic

NBC will broadcast Virgin Galactic's maiden flight live, with Richard Branson and his family in attendance

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source of food and oxygen. The radish seeds that germinated in space. Photo courtesy of NSL Satellites

From middle school - to outer space

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