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    Space Station Is Full: No Vacancy for Space Tourists

    Virgin Galactic's Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap

    Video: Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo in Action

    Charles Simonyi, Creator of MS Office, Becomes First Repeat Space Tourist

    Sweden's Ice Hotel Charging $200,000 for Space Trips in 2012

    To the Chagrin of Rich Geeks Everywhere, Russians Killing Space Tourism Program

    Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo Flies For the First Time

    Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light

    Armadillo Aerospace Fishbowl Spaceship Set for a 2010 Launch (Seriously)

    Gaming Mogul Space Tourist Richard Garriott Back On Earth
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    Image of LordGriffin LordGriffin
    11/26/09

    In reply to Space Station Is Full: No Vacancy for Space Tourists
    Pfft. I bet that doesn't mean that NO tourists will be allowed. It just means that the price tag went up by one or two orders of magnitude. If Bill Gates wanted to go up, he'd go the heck up!
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    Image of Brett Benedict Brett Benedict
    11/26/09

    In reply to Space Station Is Full: No Vacancy for Space Tourists
    Is there actually a difference between an astronaut and a cosmonaut or is it just semantics?
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    Image of Gonzalo Oxenford Gonzalo Oxenford
    11/26/09

    @Brett Benedict: Cosmonauts are from Russia. Astronauts from are from USA.
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    Image of bzwingzero+giz bzwingzero+giz
    11/26/09

    @Brett Benedict:
    American trained space explorers are "Astronauts".

    Russian trained space explorers are "Cosmonauts".

    Chinese trained space explorers are "Taikonauts", however this isn't official terminology.

    A person trained by one of these groups, but has their trip funded out of pocket is a "Private Space Explorer", although they are often called "space tourists". No "space tourists" have actually flown without being an integral member of the crew they've been a part of. The only difference was who was footing the bill for their flight.
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    Image of appletoad appletoad
    11/26/09

    @Gonzalo Oxenford: Cosmonauts are comrades. I don't know wtf astronauts are.
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    Image of Brett Benedict Brett Benedict
    11/26/09

    @Gonzalo Oxenford: More like communauts, amirite?
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    Image of Unknown2U Unknown2U
    11/26/09

    In reply to Space Station Is Full: No Vacancy for Space Tourists
    No!!! My life savings is ruined.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/05/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap
    Forget what this guy says. Virgin won't be the only ones trying this in the future. Other more visionary engineers and designers and industrialists will eventually try an approach that works. These assumptions always stem from our limited understanding of technology, and then some ambitious crazy person/people in a laboratory, or a workshop, will come up with something that blows our minds away and we move forward.


    I think we'll always need to explore. If not, well we'll need to rely on the mentalists to retain knowledge for us while we fall into a Dark Age.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/05/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap
    A catastrophic event in the next few thousand years sounds alarmist. The sun will blow up in 5 billion years, some other life-imperiling natural catastrophe will almost certainly happen before that, and could technically happen at any time. But the chances of it happening in the next few thousand years is as unlikely as our ability to respond to it with this kind of nascent technology.


    I wonder how many years it would take to develop space exploration to the point where it could conceivably shuttle our species to another home if the Earth became a big hot mess? Given that space flight is only 50 years old, I wonder what the practical goals could be in 500 years (outposts on all planets?), 5,000 years (travel beyond solar system?) or 50,000 years (wormholes, universal wifi with happy meals, etc.)?

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    05/05/09

    @frigg: Universal Wi-Fi wil NEVER be a reality.
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    Image of fuzz54 fuzz54
    05/05/09

    @frigg: Within 500 years (probably more like 100) we will have created AI that is smarter than us and getting smarter. At that point I think all bets are off.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/05/09

    @fuzz54: I take it you've read "The Singularity."


    @radarskiy: you wouldn't necessarily have to transport the whole population to save the species. You're also assuming birth rates will continue to accelerate. It's possible with dramatically longer life spans, birth rates will dramatically decrease.

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    Image of Gann Gann
    05/05/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap
    It'll be expensive until I finish building my space ladder.
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    Image of norfizzle norfizzle
    05/05/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap
    I think 'never' was the wrong choice of words.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/05/09

    @norfizzle: At the rate we're going, 10,000 will be "cheap in about 10 years.
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    Image of aerospaceman aerospaceman
    05/05/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap
    what is 'cheap' supposed to mean?
    Airline travel isn't cheap and yet many people do it, mainly because they have to.
    We will have extensive space travel when we actually need it, when there is a military or economic purpose to it. Governments and corporations lack foresight beyond five years, so by the time we really need to send tons of cargo and hundreds of people up there ASAP we will be completely unprepared for it, in typical human fashion.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/05/09

    @aerospaceman: Cheap is %2 of your annual salary.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/05/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap
    Oh, man! I feel for those poor planes. I'm wondering if a good aeronautical surgeon could separate them, let them lead normal flights?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/05/09

    @bosskev: The problem is they share a hydraulic system. If you separate them, one will no longer be operational. Which one flies, and which one hangs lifeless in some Godforsaken museum somewhere... that is a decision no aeronautical engineer should ever have to make.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/05/09

    @frigg: So they can't seperate and send everyone to the emergency bridge in case of a Borg ambush?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/05/09

    @Skunky: Sadly, this generation of spaceship cannot separate without grave consequences to the vessel left behind. Not sure we should be talking about it here... the Borg could already be among us, watching, and waiting.
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    Image of OMG! Bacon! OMG! Bacon!
    05/05/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap
    Expensive until they make the magic space elevator?
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    Image of aerospaceman aerospaceman
    05/05/09

    @phoenix27:
    technology is the new magic.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/05/09

    @aerospaceman: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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    Image of notyournormalpoop notyournormalpoop
    05/01/09

    In reply to Video: Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo in Action
    Branson? Huh? Moron much?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/01/09

    @notyournormalpoop: Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?
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    Image of wezelboy wezelboy
    05/01/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: It's Rutan, not Branson. Branson just has a lot of money. Rutan is the brains.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/01/09

    @wezelboy: I understand that. I just took it as a tongue-in-cheek sort of affair, hence the near meme status that people are starting to paint around Branson, a la John Mayer.
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    Image of Nathan Tokala Nathan Tokala
    05/01/09

    In reply to Video: Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo in Action
    so this is the piece of crap thats going to get us into space no offense but it looks retarded with the to cockpits
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/01/09

    @Nathan Tokala: If it works, who cares what it looks like?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/01/09

    @Nathan Tokala: Hey, show some respect.


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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    03/26/09

    In reply to Charles Simonyi, Creator of MS Office, Becomes First Repeat Space Tourist
    If it turns out that he also invented Clippy, then please leave him there.
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    Image of drewdoog drewdoog
    03/26/09

    In reply to Charles Simonyi, Creator of MS Office, Becomes First Repeat Space Tourist
    If I went to space, I would press a button in the shuttle.. I dont know what the button would do, but come on.. all those buttons... its like bubble wrap, you just have too. [gadgets.boingboing.net]
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    03/26/09

    @drewdoog: "Max and Jinx- friends forever!"
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    03/26/09

    In reply to Charles Simonyi, Creator of MS Office, Becomes First Repeat Space Tourist
    Why hasn't Gates done this?

    Surely he could afford yearly trips for him and his family.

    cheapsakate
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/26/09

    @deanbmmv: Maybe he has, but just hasn't told anyone about it. It's like how no one knows that he is building an underwater city to house the world's elite people, and how no one knows that he is spending billions of dollars on genetic enhancements for said people.
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