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RocketShip Tours Teams Up With XCOR Aerospace To Offer A $95,000 Right Stuff Experience

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The race to offer commercial passengers an experience of a lifetime just got more affordable. RocketShip Tours owned by Jules Klar, a veteran in the travel business will arrange a sub-orbital ...





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Japan to develop midair rocket-launch system

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created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The government has launched a project to develop a midair rocket-launching system that can place satellites in orbit, it has been learned.


Bad weather could interfere with NASA test flight (AP)

Bad weather could interfere with NASA test flight

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- NASA's newest rocket is on the verge of blasting off on a test flight.


NASA's new moon rocket makes first test flight (AP)

NASA's Ares I-X moon rocket makes first test flight

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight.


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Rocket Racing Could be Futuristic NASCAR Sport

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created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 6

With its first demonstration of a rocket-powered plane, the Rocket Racing League is hoping to have invented a new sport. Thousands of spectators witnessed the league´s first flight, held at the Experimental ...


NASA tries 2nd time to launch experimental rocket (AP)

NASA tries 2nd time to launch experimental rocket

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Bad weather was interfering with NASA's attempt to launch a new, experimental rocket for the second day in a row early Wednesday.


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The rocket that thinks it's a jet

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created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- A reusable spaceplane that can take off from a conventional aircraft runway, carry over twelve tonnes to orbit and then return to land on the same runway could be less than a decade away thanks ...


Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars (AP)

Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 36

(AP) -- Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.


Scientists prepare the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2) "Poisk"

Rocket with new module for space station blasts off

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Soyuz rocket carrying a new Russian-made module for the International Space Station blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan, television pictures showed.


Bad weather delays NASA new rocket test flight (AP)

Bad weather delays NASA new rocket test flight

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- NASA tried for hours Tuesday to launch its newest rocket for a shakedown flight, but clouds and high wind kept it stuck on the pad.


NASA: Booster rocket damaged in test flight (AP)

NASA: Booster rocket damaged in test flight

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- NASA says the booster rocket used in a test flight was badly dented when it fell into the Atlantic.



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