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silasraven

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looks like fun. they will need everyone. whats on earth will be needed in space. and now naza built a prototype space suit that looks like buzz light yearshttp://movies.yahoo.com/news/nasas-next-generation-spacesuit-looks-buzz-lightyear-050000433.html


the z 1 prototypw space suit 2.0 life support system. really cool, yet i cant help but look at it and still see that the suits that the 3 dudes just went up in are allot small and allot more feasable as a suit to use but thats just me. but small suits arnt always a good thing

 
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silasraven

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for some reason it took me forever to find this, but spaceX has signed a contract with bigelow aerospace to take its passengers to its private space station. bigelow announced it wanted to put a space station privatly into orbit for the purpose of research and tourism, they are based out of nevada. spacex will launch its dragon capsule and dock with bigelows space station offload passengers and remain there untill they are ready to return. bigelow bought the licenced concept from nasa after they dropped it due to funding shortages, they are currently waiting for the technologies to catch up.http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/spacex-announces-deal-to-shuttle-tourists-to-private-space-stations/
 
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silasraven

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found another couple of things one from a danish couple who privatly launched a rocket from a ship in the baltic sea, the rocket reached 12 miles and is homemade. they had a manikin in it.
A Danish group of amateur spaceflight enthusiasts launched a homemade rocket Friday (July 27) on a trial flight to test vital technologies for a private manned spacecraft.
The team Copenhagen Suborbitals launched its two-stage unmanned rocket SMARAGD-1 from a floating platform in the Baltic Sea to test long-range communications gear, rocket stage separation systems and other equipment needed for its planned larger crewed spaceship. The rocket was expected to reach an altitude of about 12 miles (20 kilometers) during the test flight, according to a mission description

http://www.space.com/16800-copenhagen-suborbitals-private-rocket-launch.html

another article just realized maybe put out today a swedish company is offering space flights in the near future from the airport they run.

Sweden's small Arctic town of Kiruna has a surprisingly international [COLOR=blue !important][FONT=inherit !important][COLOR=blue !important][FONT=inherit !important]airport[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] with regular flights to London and [COLOR=blue !important][FONT=inherit !important][COLOR=blue !important][FONT=inherit !important]Tokyo[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR], but it has even bigger plans: to offer commercial space flights.

Spaceport Sweden, a company founded in 2007, hopes to be able to provide the first flights within a decade from Kiruna's airport.

"We're working on establishing commercial flights from Sweden to space for tourism and research, and to create a launching pad at the airport," explained the company's enthusiastic director, Karin Nilsdotter, seated in her office at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF).

The idea is that space tourists would take off for a maximum two-hour trip into space aboard futuristic spacecraft currently undergoing testing, which resemble a cross between an airplane and a space shuttle and which can carry between one and six passengers.

The sub-orbital flights will send passengers 100 kilometres above Earth and allow them to experience five minutes of weightlessness.

Kiruna's location in the far north of Sweden, and Europe, makes it a prime location for space flights, Nilsdotter said.

http://www.thelocal.se/45104/20121217/#.UNSmvYbn-ik

2 "private" companies coming forward. this is just the start for the danes and sweds so anyone really wanting to get up there making your own is very much feasible.
 
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silasraven

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not sorry for so many posts ,DUDE!!!!!!!
http://www.space.com/15593-space-race-2012-spaceflight-finalists.html
seattles space needle will award a prize to one person for a space flight. armidillo will be the company taking them and footing the bill.http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home
Five would-be space tourists have been battling in Seattle this week for a free suborbital spaceflight, a grand prize that will be announced tomorrow (May 9) by famed moonwalker Buzz Aldrin.
The five contestants are finalists in Space Race 2012, a competition sponsored by Seattle's Space Needle and the private spaceflight company Space Adventures. The contest officially opened on Aug. 1, 2011 and attracted more than 50,000 entrants from all over the country, according to Space Needle officials.
 
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silasraven

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http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/23/16114180-spacex-launches-its-grasshopper-rocket-on-12-story-high-hop-in-texas?lite
SpaceX's prototype Grasshopper rocket took one giant leap last week, rising to a 12-story height and settling back down safely on its landing legs at the company's Texas rocket test facility. Just for fun, the engineers let a dummy cowboy go along for the ride.
The Dec. 17 test flight at the pad in McGregor, Texas, was documented in a YouTube video released today — and discussed in a series of lighthearted tweets from SpaceX's billionaire founder, Elon Musk.
"To provide a little perspective on the size of Grasshopper, we added a 6-ft cowboy to the rocket. ... Then we took him for a ride," Musk wrote. So how did the cowboy fare? "No problemo," said Musk.
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The 10-story-tall Grasshopper rocket is designed to take off and land vertically, as part of Musk's plan to develop a rocket capable of returning itself to a launch pad for rapid reusability. Today's vertical-takeoff launch systems generally rely upon expendable lower stages — although the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters could be recovered from the Atlantic Ocean and refurbished for reuse. If a rocket stage can return to its launch facility intact and ready to go again, that could significantly lower the cost of spaceflight. That's what Musk is shooting for.
SpaceX says the Grasshopper consists of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage, a Merlin 1D engine, four steel landing legs with hydraulic dampers, and a steel support structure. During the prototype's first flight test on Sept. 21, the Grasshopper rose 6 feet into the air. The second test, on Nov. 1, lasted 8 seconds and lifted the Grasshopper 17.7 feet (5.4 meters) off the pad. The company said last week's third test went for 29 seconds, during which the Grasshopper rose 131 feet (40 meters) into the air, hovered and landed safely back on the pad, using closed-loop thrust vector and throttle control.[video=youtube_share;B4PEXLODw9c]http://youtu.be/B4PEXLODw9c[/video]

space.coms editor is not up yet. this is the start for all kinds of aircraft and vechiles, maybe a car? the timed expoltion of that much fuel at those times,with honing the skills the space programs will could look to be very promising
 
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silasraven

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http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/technology/deep_space_habitat/constructing-demonstrators.html
space lab for more room.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/veggie.html
within the coming year there will be more info on the growth of plants in the space station. there is a lab that uses LED lights for the plants

With all the prepackaged gardening kits on the market, an exceptionally green thumb isn't necessary to grow your own tasty fresh vegetables here on Earth. The same may hold true for U.S. astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station when they receive a newly developed Vegetable Production System, called VEGGIE for short, set to launch aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule on NASA's third Commercial Resupply Services mission next year.

"Our hope is that even though VEGGIE is not a highly complex plant growth apparatus, it will allow the crew to rapidly grow vegetables using a fairly simple nutrient and water delivery approach," said Howard Levine, Ph.D. and chief scientist, NASA's Kennedy Space Center International Space Station Research Office.

Gioia Massa, a postdoctoral fellow in the Surface Systems Group of Kennedy's Engineering Directorate, has been working with the International Space Station Research Office to validate the VEGGIE hardware here on Earth before it takes flight next year.

"VEGGIE could be used to produce faster-growing species of plants, such as lettuce or radishes, bok choy or Chinese cabbage, or even bitter leafy greens" Massa said. "Crops like tomatoes, peas or beans in which you'd have to have a flower and set fruit would take a little longer than a 28-day cycle."

It may not sound like a big deal to us Earthlings who can just run out to our local produce stand or supermarket when we have a hankering for a salad, but when you're living 200 miles above the surface of the planet, truly fresh food only comes a few times a year.


"When the resupply ships get up there, the fresh produce gets eaten almost immediately," Massa said.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/technology/deep_space_habitat/xhab/xhab-2012-progress.html
way too much info to copy and paste. basically students from a couple unis made their own space labs and are testing them on earth.
 
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silasraven

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http://www.space.com/19362-asteroid-mining-deep-space-industries.html

there is now a second company who will be having a press conference in cali tomorrow at 2, they will want to mine asteroids for the purposes of gold and rocket fuel from the h2o you find on the rocks. it will still be a couple of years but it still going to happen. the space industry is slow because nasa fucked around in the 70's and 80's and didnt want to do anything but build rovers. personally they stalled human colonization of space for vanity.
 
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silasraven

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a second company has come forward for mars

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/21/human-mission-to-mars-may-be-planned-for-2018/?hpt=hp_t2
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
Will the Mars rover Curiosity catch a glimpse of a manned spaceship in this decade? That could be even more exciting than the gray powder it found by drilling.
A nonprofit organization called the Inspiration Mars Foundation is hosting a press conference next week in which plans for a trip to Mars and back will be revealed. The proposed launch date is January 2018, and the venture is called "Mission for America."
The press release doesn't explicitly state that the mission is manned, but it does say that the organization "is committed to accelerating America's human exploration of space as a critical catalyst for future growth, national prosperity, new knowledge and global leadership."
The leader of this effort is millionaire Dennis Tito, who's no stranger to space travel. He spent $20 million to jaunt up to the International Space Station in 2001, making him the first private space traveler.


ok so if you hit the link the article goes into titos idea to get to mar and back in 501 days, which makes me wonder what his real mission is.to go and stay and come back or to make this something of a travelers package
 
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silasraven

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[video=youtube_share;ir947aK6mu4]http://youtu.be/ir947aK6mu4?t=4m20s[/video]

well theres more people throwing money into space, the asteroid mining should be the easiest part.
 
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silasraven

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http://www.space.com/19953-space-tourism-canada-xcor-lynx.html
xcor of sierra nv is launching people into space by the end of the year for tourism. virgin galactic hasnt even done that as of yet. the plans are to send anyone whos pays for suborbital flights.

XCOR aims to get the first tourists into its Lynx space plane by the end of this year for high-altitude flights, and then offer regular suborbital flights above 62 miles (100 kilometers) in 2014. Spronk said XCOR has a history of meeting its posted expectations.
"They're reliable," he said, adding that the vehicle's rocket engines have been tested thousands of times and are ready to be put on the Lynx spaceship. The wings and cockpit will be installed in the coming months.
Uniktour's president, Philippe Bergeron, places so much faith in the technology that he plans to take the inaugural Uniktour test flight aboard a Lynx spacecraft himself in late 2013.
"It's the only technology in the world that allows rocket engines to open and shut during the flight," Bergeron told SPACE.com.
Uniktour ticket sales opened Feb. 1, and the firm has made two sales. Its primary market is in the Canadian province of Quebec; in the coming months, it will likely expand marketing to France, where a major shareholder is located.
ATC, which is marketing to the rest of Canada, is entering final negotiations with about a dozen customers since opening sales Feb. 5, Spronk said. More could be coming shortly.
There's a substantial price difference between the two firms: Uniktour's tickets range between $95,000 and $100,000, while ATC's offerings start at $142,000 Canadian ($141,840 at current conversion rates).
ATC's package includes a longer hotel stay and training, Spronk explained. Uniktour's clients can purchase training separately.
 
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silasraven

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/israeli-space-engineers-hope-to-take-another-giant-leap-for-mankind.premium-1.509660

Israel may not have Apollo, but its space industry is hoping to take a giant leap for mankind in 2015 to become the third country in history to land on the moon, this time in a tiny unmanned spacecraft equipped with high definition technology capable of broadcasting images back to Earth.

A non-profit organization that aims to land four astronauts on Mars in 2023 has signed its first deal with a supplier for the ambitious space colonization effort.http://www.space.com/20164-mars-colony-life-support-systems.html


The Netherlands-based Mars Onehas contracted with Paragon Space Development Corp. to perform a conceptual design study into Red Planet life-support and spacesuit systems, officials announced today (March 11).
"We are extremely proud to have been selected by the Mars One team to provide such a vital role on the project," Paragon chief engineer and co-founder Grant Anderson said in a statement. "The objective of this conceptual design study will be to provide a well-defined pathway to mature the technologies and architectures required for long-term human habitation in the Martian environment."
 
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silasraven

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a swizz company has now unveiled its space shuttle, it will fly on a similair type of aircraft like a 747. very sleak[video]http://www.space.com/21605-project-soar-swiss-space-plane-gaining-steam-video.html[/video]enjoy.
 
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silasraven said:
http://www.space.com/19953-space-tourism-canada-xcor-lynx.html
xcor of sierra nv is launching people into space by the end of the year for tourism. virgin galactic hasnt even done that as of yet. the plans are to send anyone whos pays for suborbital flights.

XCOR aims to get the first tourists into its Lynx space plane by the end of this year for high-altitude flights, and then offer regular suborbital flights above 62 miles (100 kilometers) in 2014. Spronk said XCOR has a history of meeting its posted expectations.
"They're reliable," he said, adding that the vehicle's rocket engines have been tested thousands of times and are ready to be put on the Lynx spaceship. The wings and cockpit will be installed in the coming months.
Uniktour's president, Philippe Bergeron, places so much faith in the technology that he plans to take the inaugural Uniktour test flight aboard a Lynx spacecraft himself in late 2013.
"It's the only technology in the world that allows rocket engines to open and shut during the flight," Bergeron told SPACE.com.
Uniktour ticket sales opened Feb. 1, and the firm has made two sales. Its primary market is in the Canadian province of Quebec; in the coming months, it will likely expand marketing to France, where a major shareholder is located.
ATC, which is marketing to the rest of Canada, is entering final negotiations with about a dozen customers since opening sales Feb. 5, Spronk said. More could be coming shortly.
There's a substantial price difference between the two firms: Uniktour's tickets range between $95,000 and $100,000, while ATC's offerings start at $142,000 Canadian ($141,840 at current conversion rates).
ATC's package includes a longer hotel stay and training, Spronk explained. Uniktour's clients can purchase training separately.
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Any pic's of the Air/Space Craft?
 
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silasraven

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what do you think life is...........work. how do you think i feel trying to get this information out to people who could use it to start their own companies and get humanity into space already.
 
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