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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Recently surveys on public attitudes toward space exploration taken by the Dittmar Associates firm had some disquieting news for NASA. It seems that there is a high level of apathy toward NASA programs on the part of 18 to 25 year olds.

After having the Columbia shuttle disaster and a number of other setbacks, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration is making plans to continue space exploration.

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

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.

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

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.

One of the great questions that people are wrestling with in this the beginning of the second half century of the space age is what are the proper roles of the private and public sectors in the opening of the high frontier?

A new book explores the meaning of the Apollo space program by interviewing the last living astronauts who walked on the moon.

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.

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.

In 1969, we landed on the moon, and now, we have accomplished sending a satellite to Mars to collect data and pictures so we can explore this foreign planet.

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

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

If you've always wanted to get involved in exploring space without setting aside six to eight years in a major university, then you should consider getting involved in looking for the missing 1999 Mars Polar Lander that NASA is letting the public attempt to find...

A true space age is almost here. It's exciting, but raises questions about who we'll be sharing the cosmic spaceways with as we venture forth into the final frontier.

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.

Until now NASA only had the innocuous name Crew Exploration Vehicle for the next generation of space craft. Though still on the drawing board, NASA finally has christened its new class of ships.

Return to the Moon, edited by the Space Frontier Foundation's Rick Tumlinson, contains a series of essays geared more for the policy wonk than to the engineer or scientist.

Information about the progression of space tourism.

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.

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.

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...

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.

The first time that I ever heard of space tourism, Lance Bass of N'Sync was in training to go into space and was paying to go. Here is what has been happening since.

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.

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.

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.

Ever since October 4th, 2004, when the X Prize was won by SpaceShipOne's first private suborbital flights, another space race has been ongoing. The winner of this space tourism race will be the first to provide suborbital adventure flights for paying customers.

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.

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

Lest you think the SpacePort is some docking point for a Close Encounters-like scenario then think again. The SpacePort is -- above all else -- a money-making venture: Branson's Virgin Galactic hopes to debut its first flight in 2009.

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

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

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

When thinking of women's contribution to the United States of America's space program, the name Sally Ride is most often one of the first to be mentioned.

Actors, actresses, the rich and the famous are already lining up to be some of the first to fly into outer space.

Many years ago, the Astronomer Royal of Great Britain Richard vander Riet Woolley famously declared, "Space travel is utter bilge." It was a statement that haunted him for the rest of his life.

With the advancements in space technology, the opportunity for the private sector to get out into space and make money has become a reality

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Recently Robert Bigelow, the Los Vegas hotel tycoon who has been working on an orbiting "space hotel" made a couple of announcements that have shaken up the commercial aerospace world.

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.

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.

This article reviews Space Camp at the Kennedy Space Center.

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.

If the launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial Earth satellite, did anything it opened people in 1957 to the possibilities that space travel presented.

The Aerospace Industries Association announced that presidential campaigns should publicly express their support of NASA's Constellation Program in order to ensure America's leadership in space exploration and further the efforts of education.

The actions of the new Congress concerning funding NASA's program to send human explorers to the Moon and Mars can seem puzzling. This is especially so for anyone who is unfamiliar with the capacity of politicians to practice double think.

NASA has said that the moon is going to play as very important and prominent part in the future of space exploration and these studies will greatly expand our knowledge of the Moon and the Earth and beyond that to the whole universe.

Since India began pushing space research and exploration in the 70's it has launched a number of successful missions and plans on putting an Indian in space by 2014 and an Indian on the moon by 2020.

The crew will test lunar exploration concepts and medical concerns for long space flights. They'll conduct "moon walks" under the sea, build a communications tower, practice lunar sample collecting and perform tasks to look into space suit design.

Mars is an example of how many different biases and ideas form our perception and practice of science, as well as how technology helps break through the limitations of human subjectivity.

The future of humanity is dependent on space travel.

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.

A somewhat continuation of The Next Generation, the show began to air concurrently while The Next Generation was still on the air. Find out what made Star Trek Deep Space Nine unlike its predecessors.

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.

NASA is setting to partner up with what some might see as their biggest threat: Virgin Galactic, which seeks to become the world's first commercial spaceline.

An article comparing the alien Space Babes of two classic Sci-Fi TV shows.

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...

Of all the Star Trek feature films, the fifth entry in the series is considered by most fans to be the weakest and least satisfying.

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.

Space Planes are planes capable of escaping the Earth's gravitational pull and flying into space.

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.

Even though the first space tourists to board Virgin Galactic's, SpaceShipTwo, will not board the maiden commercial flight into space for a couple of years their preparation has already begun.

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.

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.

U.S. billionaire who helped develop Microsoft Word and two Russian Cosmonauts made it to the International Space station early Tuesday.

Building and launching rockets can be a difficult thing to get right. This was illustrated spectacularly on March 24th when the first flight of SpaceX's Falcon 1 ended in failure and complete lost of the launch vehicle.

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.

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

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.

With space tourism is within reach, naturally, those tourists will have to pay for their expenses with one currency or another. Why not with "Quid"? No, not the British pound, but "Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination."

Claims regarding the possibility of anti gravity have been investigated by NASA before, but this one is different in that it uses entirely new fields with new properties.

The Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum, named for the astronaut and located in his hometown, is a space honoring the first man to walk on the moon, the history of flight, and Ohio's role in the chronicle of space travel.

Rather than remain in the comfort of a universe of our own meaning, we may face horror and wonder, which help us love our ordinary way of understanding everything, so that true being beyond that which is normally known can become accessible to our minds.

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle known as Challenger disintegrated, less than 90 seconds after liftoff from a launch pad at Cape Kennedy, in Florida.

Recently it was revealed that NASA was considering sending the Orion space craft, now under development to return human explorers to the Moon, to investigate an Earth approaching asteroid.

From a seemingly near-vertical 60 degree launch position, your Shuttle carries you into space with convincing special effects to enhance the experience.

The recent death of Dr. James Van Allen, opponent of human space flight, reminds us that the robots vrs astronaut debate is as old as the space age.

A female space shuttle astronaut pays the price for pursuing her exciting career while trying to hold her family together in this exciting new novel.

Anousheh Ansari is the first ever space blogger, as well as the first female space tourist. Read here about how personal hygeine is taken care of in space, what happens when you see flying yogurt and find out where you can get more space travel tips!

Since its first proposal in the 1960's the space elevator has been considered science fiction. With recent advances, however, the space elevator is becoming a reality. The Space Elevator Games are one of the most notable parts of its development.

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.

Apollo 13, Ron Howard's epid telling of a true life space adventure, does not rely on blasters of aliens like other space films. That's because the events told in the movie actually happened.

Does space exploration shed any light on the theory of evolution? Not exactly. It "sheds" more darkness than light.