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Space tourism yet to fly, 5 years since 1st flight (AP)

Space tourism yet to fly, 5 years since 1st flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- When a private spaceship soared over California to claim a $10 million prize, daredevil venture capitalist Alan Walton was 68 and thought he'd soon be on a rocket ride of his own.


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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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NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy

NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope ...


Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.


Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening

Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast.


Research sheds new light on neutron stars (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by Michigan State University scientists has shed new light on the properties of neutron stars, galactic oddities that are formed when a large star runs out of fuel and collapses.


Fermi telescope detects gamma-ray from 'star factories' in other galaxies

Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma-Ray From 'Star Factories' in Other Galaxies

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Two so-called "starburst" galaxies, plus a satellite ...


Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery

Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration that includes scientists from the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has discovered very-high-energy ...


The bird sanctuary facilities built on the wetlands surrounding the Dongtan Eco-City project on Chongming Island

Bridge opens China's 'last virgin island' for development

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

China on Saturday opens a new bridge over the Yangtze that will pave the way for rapid development of the country's "last virgin island," Chongming -- now just an hour's drive from booming Shanghai.


Dark matter sleuths to design world's largest WIMP catcher

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A team of researchers led by a Case Western Reserve University physicist is planning the world's largest, most sensitive experiment to catch the stuff of dark matter, stuff that's proved way beyond invisible.


Opening up a colorful cosmic jewel box

Opening up a colorful cosmic jewel box

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Star clusters are among the most visually alluring and astrophysically fascinating objects in the sky. One of the most spectacular nestles deep in the southern skies near the Southern Cross ...


Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round

Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (34) | comments 62

Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish ...



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