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Constructed as a prototype vehicle for flight and endurance tests on the space shuttle design, the Enterprise paved the way for space flight for shuttles built after her.

With the recent failure of Columbia in 2003, and, of course, Challenger in 1986, many doubts are growing in the hearts of mankind over the safety, reliability, and sensibility of manned space missions.

2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age, agreed by most to have begun with the launch Sputnik, on October 4th, 1957. While some are taking stock of the last fifty years, others are wondering what the next fifty years might bring.

In this paper, the meaning of the Space Race and its accomplishments will be explored and discussed within the context of the Cold War and beyond.

NASA proposed to build the follow on to the space shuttle, the Crewed Exploration Vehicle, five years after the shuttle will be retired. NASA is trying to narrow that gap. The solution may be a race to build a commercial space vehicle.

There was more than one space race taking place in the 1960s. Not only was the United States racing the Soviet Union, but women were racing men into space.

Science and science fiction feed one another. Dr. Marc Rayman, Chief Propulsion Engineer at NASA talks real science and sci-fi fun like Star Trek & Star Wars.

What is the true cost of voyaging to the moon? Historian Gerard J. DeGroot makes an accounting in his new book "Dark Side of the Moon" and he doesn't like the bottom line.

For companies that pursue space travel or space exploration, insurance protection is necessary to safeguard against rare events, including those damages to a third party.

Three major myths about space exploration have arisen and are believed by a great many people. Two of the myths have been around since the beginning of the Space Age. One myth, however, is of more recent vintage.

After several exceedingly wealthy individuals have gone for "space vacations," it seems that an industry will develop providing space travel to the rich.

People have argued about the need for space flight and complain about the money spent. I give facts about space flight and show why people need to explore beyond what they see.

A look at the NASA program and what should be down about space exploration in America.

The advancements in technology have allowed us to do so many new and interesting things with our abilities in space travel. Computers play such an important role in calculating, collecting and analyzing data, predicting outcomes, aiding in travel, etc...

The standard for civilian space travel restricts the FAA from regulating amateur space travel until a fatal tragedy occurs. President Bush signed this document in 2004. The reality of space travel arrives with the Virgin Galactic space port in NM.

In a couple of years or so, George and Loretta Whiteskies, who were married in 2006, will take a long delayed honeymoon. Their honeymoon will be a first, as they will ride into space on board Virgin Galactic's sub orbital cruise ship, SpaceShipTwo.

The next US President will enter office in January, 2009 with a space program that is in transition. He or she will have the opportunity to shape what could be the Third Age of Space.

Forty or so years ago, astronauts had all the glory of the exploration of space. Now, robots are exploring places that currently no astronaut can go. For the past twenty five years, no human being has journeyed beyond low Earth orbit.

This is a description and review, along with a little history, of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, in Huntsville, AL.

NASA is planning to explore other planets farther out in our solar system that will add even more years to the space missions resulting in the astronauts being away from home longer. The space agency has now been put in the position of pondering many issues.

My trip to Space Camp as a young teenager ignited a life-long love of space.

What if you had a shuttle launch and nobody came? Well, to hold the public's interest in the space program, NASA shows that it's big thinkers aren't out to launch.

The space shuttle, once thought to be the solution to cheap access to space, will be retired in 2010 having never achieved that goal. However, cheap access to space may yet be accomplished by the private sector.

The ascension of the Democrats to control of the Congress in the recent midterm elections has implications for America's space effort. For those who support the effort, the news was potentially mixed

The 40th Anniversary of the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, along with the death of Arthur C. Clarke, brings to mind how the Space Age might have been, as opposed to what it has been. I was pleased to come upon a story along those lines entitled Recovering Apollo 8.

A California congressman wants to sell ad space on the space shuttle and other NASA equipment to fill the holes left in the space agencies pockets.

It's one of the delicious ironies of history that the first private space travelers were facilitated by the Soviet (then Russian) space program.

3... 2... 1... LIFTOFF! What actually goes into getting a space vehicle into orbit?

Civil space policy has not been a top tier political issue in a Presidential race since Kennedy/Nixon in 1960, when the United States was still reeling from the implications of Sputnik.

Biographies of Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolov are the launching pad of an analysis of the colossal rocket duel waged between the United States and the Soviet Union in the book "Space Race" written by BBC producer Deborah Cadbury.

Did the Apollo astronauts find something more interesting than rocks on the moon? An imaginative new book called "The Apollo Prophecies" takes another look at what might have happened on the lunar surface.

The pursuit for water has taken space exploration to a narrowed focus through our belief of the origin of life.

A group of planetary scientists, former astronauts, and former NASA officials, led by the Planetary Society's Louis Friedman, have come up with a proposal to alter the goals of President Bush's Vision for Space Exploration.

The Kennedy Space Center at the Cape is where you will learn all about the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) - their history and the future, and the nature and technology of space exploration.

When President Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration almost two years ago, he left the question of how to pay for it unanswred. The question is important, as trhe Vision must be sustained for decades.

The future of humanity is dependent on space travel.

Space Travel is possible for all. Neither rocket ships nor mind-altering drugs are needed.

The US Congress has passed an Omnibus Appropriations bill funding most domestic programs for the rest of the current fiscal year, but at the last fiscal year's levels. In so doing, the Congress threatens to severely damage the US space effort.

Recently, Senator Hillary Clinton revealed her science agenda. Of great interest to people involved in making and debating space policy were the three bullets concerning the space program.

Barack Obama's recent statements concerning the direction of the civil space program in his potential administration is the cause of confusion at best, of very grave concern at worse.

Persistent claims are made that Teflon is a by-product of the US space program. Despite these claims the fact is that Teflon was first discovered in 1938 and was used in the Manhattan Project, the code name given to the secret development of the Atomic Bomb.

"This provision will help the United States maintain its global leadership in space by keeping exploration programs on track."

The monopoly of an enterprise by a government agency is incongruous with the nature of America's economy, which in almost all other areas is highly supportive of private franchise. In recent years, public interest has been sparked in the idea of private enterprise in space.

The 2007 budget presented by the House Republican Study Committee has some good ideas to reduce the deficit. Unfortunately it also has a proposal that would sound the death knell for publicly funded human space flight in the United States.

The new Photon Laser Thruster produced by the Bae Institute makes it possible in the near future to travel to Mars in one week. The residual fallout from this technology can have immense benefits for commercial, aerospace, and civilian aerospace realms.

Feeling disgusted that some of your family or friends aren't paying enough attention to the awe-inspiring strides NASA has been making lately? You're not alone, and something needs to be done to get the public inspired about space again as NASA turns 50...

Moon missions have captured the public's imagination like no other space missions. So why aren't we there now?

A brief overview of the future of travel, tourism into outer space.