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Opinion / Vehicles (Bad)
19 April 2012 by Carol Pinchefsky
That you didn't know about the Space Shuttle
Criticizing the Space Shuttle is like punching America in the face. After all, it’s been a symbol of national pride for thirty years. But many of my friends and I are celebrating yesterday’s piggy-backed final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum…because a museum is where the shuttle belongs.
Museum…because a museum is where the shuttle belongs. Opinion / Tourism (Good)
11 April 2011 by Alan Breakstone
A thoughtful look at the last 50 years of human spaceflight
On April 12, 1961, a young man from a small Russian village experienced something no one had ever experienced before: the thunder and shake of over 800,000 pounds of rocket thrust erupting beneath him. As Vostok 1 broke free of its launch restraints,
Yuri Gagarin
triumphantly yelled, “Let’s go!”
triumphantly yelled, “Let’s go!” Opinion / Power (None)
17 August 2010 by G B Leatherwood
...We should listen
In a recent interview with Cosmic Log famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking declared that humans must be off planet Earth in the next 100 years or face possible extinction.
Opinion / Vehicles (None)
7 March 2010 by Peter Wainwright
The development of commercial spaceplanes has been delayed for 30 years. But that's about to change.
Abstract
Opinion / Vehicles (Good)
30 July 2009 by
Is the price right?
The announcement that
Richard Branson has sold a 32% stake in
Virgin Galactic to Sheikh Mansour for $280m, reported on Bloomberg and widely in the press, puts a valuation on a space tourism company into the public domain for the first time and gives the nascent industry a higher profile in the financial world.
has sold a 32% stake in
Virgin Galactic to Sheikh Mansour for $280m, reported on Bloomberg and widely in the press, puts a valuation on a space tourism company into the public domain for the first time and gives the nascent industry a higher profile in the financial world. Opinion / Power (Good)
1 November 2007 by Patrick Collins
Fate makes strange bedfellows
by Dr. Patrick Collins
Opinion / Vehicles (Good)
8 October 2007 by Patrick Collins
(And 65 years and 10 years)
by Dr. Patrick Collins
Opinion / Power (Bad)
20 April 2007 by Patrick Collins
And what the space industry can do about it
by Dr. Patrick Collins
Opinion / General (Ugly)
29 December 2006 by G B Leatherwood
Young people "indifferent," according to survey
by G.B. Leatherwood
Opinion / Tourism (None)
4 October 2005 by Carol Pinchefsky
A comment on the news
by Carol Pinchefsky
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