Tag Archives : Space Travel

The world of space tourism has now something more to rejoice about as the highly revered, SpaceShipTwo (SS2), the sub orbital space craft designed and developed by Sir Richard Branson’s space travel entity, Virgin Galactic has now successfully completed the ‘Feather Flight’ milestone. This amazing achievement was brought to fruition at the Mojave [...]

Space tourism has finally arrived! One need not be a trained astronaut to travel in space; thanks to Space Adventures, the Virginia based company, anyone can now book a ticket for a trip around the moon and catch a priceless glimpse of Earthrise for only $150 million. One anonymous space tourist has already booked a ticket on Soyuz, the Russian spacecraft [...]

The world of space travel has taken yet another innovative turn, as a team of volunteers from Denmark have now successfully created the world’s first space rocket to have been funded entirely from donations and sponsorships. The entire project led by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen envisions sending a man into space and this incredible home [...]

If you had ever dreamed of being an astronaut, it might be easier for you in your country than in China. Chinese rules have made it mandatory for astronauts to meet standards which are closer to perfection. This idea of perfection includes that the patient does not have any history of illnesses in the past 3 generations. Apparently, the astronauts also [...]

So, NASA was competent enough to put man on moon and later on send a space probe to Mars, but it was too dumb to preserve the footage transmitted by Apollo 11. What seems downright more stupid is not that they misplaced the tapes or lost in an accident, but the wise men decided to tape over the original footage as NASA was short of video tapes in the [...]

We have been hearing a lot about space travel and how that is going to be the future of the travel industry. However, space travel comes with its dangers and risks. Recently when astronauts were on their usual mission in the space, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, who was cleaning the joint of a wing of the spacecraft, accidentally let a tool bag slip [...]

What could be better than spending the weekend up there in the skies, with someone you care for and love! Space travel, which was, once limited to science fiction is now turning reality thanks to ventures and scientific developments. However, things really have not kick started because of many limitations and the exorbitant price that is involved. Rocket [...]