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As of 2010, human spaceflight missions have been conducted by the former Soviet Union/(Russia), the United States, the People's Republic of China and by the private spaceflight company Scaled Composites. Several other countries and space agencies have announced and begun human spaceflight...

The city of Mojave began in 1876 as a construction camp on the Southern Pacific Railroad. From 1884 to 1889, the town was the western terminus of the , twenty-mule team borax wagon route originating at Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley. It later served as headquarters for construction of the...

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Private Spaceflight Companies

Space Tourism - Your Shot at Outer Space Exploration

The article provides concrete and specific strategies for accessing space tourism opportunities, even without 20 million bucks. Outer space isn't just for space shuttle astronauts and Soyuz cosmonauts anymore. With the advent of the space ticket, privately-financed spaceflight is here. ...

Human Spaceflight

Human spaceflight - Space programs

As of 2010, human spaceflight missions have been conducted by the former Soviet Union/(Russia), the United States, the People’s Republic of China and by the private spaceflight company Scaled Composites. Several other countries and space agencies have announced and begun ...

Private Spaceflight Companies

Mojave, California - History

The city of Mojave began in 1876 as a construction camp on the Southern Pacific Railroad. From 1884 to 1889, the town was the western terminus of the , twenty-mule team borax wagon route originating at Harmony Borax Works in ...

Spaceflight

Virgin Galactic: Space Tourism Flights by 2012

By: Daniel KnodelThe same company the runs Virgin Music, Virgin Mobile, and Virgin Atlantic Airways, now seeks to start a whole new kind of business. Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group plans to start the world’s first space tourism airline, Virgin ...

Beal Aerospace

Private spaceflight - Failed spaceflight ventures

After earlier first effort of OTRAG, in the 1990s the projection of a significant demand for communications satellite launches attracted the development of a number of commercial space launch providers. The launch demand largely vanished when some of the largest ...

Space Launch Vehicles

Space Tourism - Becoming Affordable to People Like Yourself

Since the 1990s, only an exceptionally affluent handful of non-astronauts have had the opportunity to see the earth from orbit. Even today, a ticket to space will set you back $20-30 million, the waiting list is 5 years, and only ...

Spaceflight

NASA Just Can't Please Anyone

NASA's long time lines and budget problems are aggravating both space enthusiasts and critics who see its missions as a waste of money. But can NASA pass its torch to private space companies to do space exploration faster and cheaper? ...

Spaceflight

Spaceflight - Earth-launched spaceflight

Reaching space The most commonly used definition of outer space is everything beyond the Kármán line, which is above the Earth’s surface. (The United States sometimes defines outer space as everything beyond in altitude.) In order for a projectile to ...

Spacecraft

Spacecraft - Reusable vessels

The first reusable spacecraft, the X-15, was air-launched on a suborbital trajectory on July 19, 1963. The first partially reusable orbital spacecraft, the Space Shuttle, was launched by the USA on the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight, on April ...

Arcaspace

SpaceDev Dream Chaser

The Dream Chaser was publicly announced on September 20, 2004 as candidate for NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and later Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Program.