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Chinese Company Deep Blue Aerospace Aims to Start Space Tourism by 2027
Deep Blue Aerospace, based in Jiangsu, China, has announced its intention to enter the space tourism market, planning to launch paying customers into suborbital space by 2027. Tickets will cost approximately $210,000, promising a comprehensive journey beyond a brief weightlessness experience. The reusable rocket-capsule system is similar to Blue Or...
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Sandbags, Bomb Shelters On Crimea Beaches After Deadly Missile Strike
Tourists thronging the Black Sea beaches of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula this summer share the space with a grim new arrival: bomb shelters and sandbags.
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Watch: India's 1st Space Tourist Shows Off Indian Flag During Flight
Indian-origin entrepreneur and pilot Gopichand Thotakura made history by becoming the first Indian tourist to venture into space as part of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin's NS-25 mission.
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Gopi Thotakura Makes History, Becomes First Indian Space Tourist
Indian expatriate Gopi Thotakura made history as he became the first Indian space tourist and the second Indian to venture into space as part of the crew for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin's NS-25 mission.
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1st Indian Goes To Space As Tourist On Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Flight
Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin resumed its space flight today, after a two-year hiatus. A group of six adventurers completed an 11-minute journey to space after liftoff from Texas.
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin To Resume Space Tourist Flights After 2-Year Pause
Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin will resume flights to space on Sunday, ending a near two-year pause of crewed operations following a 2022 mission failure.
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5 Facts About Gopi Thotakura, Indian Selected For Blue Origin Space Mission
Aerospace company Blue Origin has revealed its six-person crew set to embark on its NS-25 mission. It's the 25th mission in the program's history and the seventh time people will fly on the New Shepard spacecraft.
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"Exceeded Wildest Dreams": Virgin Galactic's First Space Trip With Tourists
Virgin Galactic launched its first tourist passengers into the weightlessness of space Thursday, the culmination of a nearly two-decade commercial pursuit, the company said.
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Opinion: A Plan For Bursting Shimla Draws Huge Objections
The population of Shimla is around 2.41 lakh, as of Census 2011, besides a floating population of some 70,000 tourists per day during peak season. The hill station lacks a public transport system, parking space and pedestrian infrastructure.
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SpaceX to Fly First Space Tourist, Entrepreneur Dennis Tito, Around the Moon on Starship
SpaceX plans to announce two new space tourists slated to fly on the Starship rocket: Dennis Tito, the world’s first-ever space tourist in 2001, and his wife, Akiko. The couple paid an undisclosed amount to fly around the moon on Starship once the vehicle is complete. They will travel with 10 other undisclosed passengers on a roughly week-long ...
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Man, 82, His Wife, Sign Up To Fly Around The Moon In Musk's SpaceX Rocket
Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX said on Wednesday that the world's first space tourist Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko have signed up to fly around the moon on the space exploration firm's Starship rocket.
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Flies 6 Tourists To Space In 5th Crewed Mission
Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin flew six tourists into space for a 10-minute ride Saturday, successfully carrying out its fifth crewed mission.
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A Look Inside Neptune, Space Lounge That Will Fly Tourists To Earth's Outer Atmosphere
Space Perspective, which describes itself as "Earth's leading luxury spaceflight experience company", has recently unveiled its Spaceship Neptune - a futuristic space balloon which will take guests on a six-hour journey to the edge of the atmosphere.
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First All-Private Flight Ax-1 to Take Off for International Space Station Today: How to Watch
The first all-private flight to the International Space Station (ISS) is set to take off on Friday. The mission, organised by the US company Axiom Space, will send a crew of four persons to the space station. This mission will not include any current NASA astronauts and all the crew members are civilians. The crew will stay on ISS for eight days.
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Oldest Tourist In Space To Hottest Month In History: Record Highs Of 2021
From sizzling global temperatures and record bitcoin highs to pensioners in space and the longest waterway traffic jam, here are some of the most significant records struck in 2021.
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Chinese Company Deep Blue Aerospace Aims to Start Space Tourism by 2027
Deep Blue Aerospace, based in Jiangsu, China, has announced its intention to enter the space tourism market, planning to launch paying customers into suborbital space by 2027. Tickets will cost approximately $210,000, promising a comprehensive journey beyond a brief weightlessness experience. The reusable rocket-capsule system is similar to Blue Or...
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Sandbags, Bomb Shelters On Crimea Beaches After Deadly Missile Strike
Tourists thronging the Black Sea beaches of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula this summer share the space with a grim new arrival: bomb shelters and sandbags.
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Watch: India's 1st Space Tourist Shows Off Indian Flag During Flight
Indian-origin entrepreneur and pilot Gopichand Thotakura made history by becoming the first Indian tourist to venture into space as part of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin's NS-25 mission.
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Gopi Thotakura Makes History, Becomes First Indian Space Tourist
Indian expatriate Gopi Thotakura made history as he became the first Indian space tourist and the second Indian to venture into space as part of the crew for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin's NS-25 mission.
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1st Indian Goes To Space As Tourist On Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Flight
Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin resumed its space flight today, after a two-year hiatus. A group of six adventurers completed an 11-minute journey to space after liftoff from Texas.
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin To Resume Space Tourist Flights After 2-Year Pause
Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin will resume flights to space on Sunday, ending a near two-year pause of crewed operations following a 2022 mission failure.
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5 Facts About Gopi Thotakura, Indian Selected For Blue Origin Space Mission
Aerospace company Blue Origin has revealed its six-person crew set to embark on its NS-25 mission. It's the 25th mission in the program's history and the seventh time people will fly on the New Shepard spacecraft.
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"Exceeded Wildest Dreams": Virgin Galactic's First Space Trip With Tourists
Virgin Galactic launched its first tourist passengers into the weightlessness of space Thursday, the culmination of a nearly two-decade commercial pursuit, the company said.
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Opinion: A Plan For Bursting Shimla Draws Huge Objections
The population of Shimla is around 2.41 lakh, as of Census 2011, besides a floating population of some 70,000 tourists per day during peak season. The hill station lacks a public transport system, parking space and pedestrian infrastructure.
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SpaceX to Fly First Space Tourist, Entrepreneur Dennis Tito, Around the Moon on Starship
SpaceX plans to announce two new space tourists slated to fly on the Starship rocket: Dennis Tito, the world’s first-ever space tourist in 2001, and his wife, Akiko. The couple paid an undisclosed amount to fly around the moon on Starship once the vehicle is complete. They will travel with 10 other undisclosed passengers on a roughly week-long ...
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Man, 82, His Wife, Sign Up To Fly Around The Moon In Musk's SpaceX Rocket
Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX said on Wednesday that the world's first space tourist Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko have signed up to fly around the moon on the space exploration firm's Starship rocket.
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Flies 6 Tourists To Space In 5th Crewed Mission
Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin flew six tourists into space for a 10-minute ride Saturday, successfully carrying out its fifth crewed mission.
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A Look Inside Neptune, Space Lounge That Will Fly Tourists To Earth's Outer Atmosphere
Space Perspective, which describes itself as "Earth's leading luxury spaceflight experience company", has recently unveiled its Spaceship Neptune - a futuristic space balloon which will take guests on a six-hour journey to the edge of the atmosphere.
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First All-Private Flight Ax-1 to Take Off for International Space Station Today: How to Watch
The first all-private flight to the International Space Station (ISS) is set to take off on Friday. The mission, organised by the US company Axiom Space, will send a crew of four persons to the space station. This mission will not include any current NASA astronauts and all the crew members are civilians. The crew will stay on ISS for eight days.
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Oldest Tourist In Space To Hottest Month In History: Record Highs Of 2021
From sizzling global temperatures and record bitcoin highs to pensioners in space and the longest waterway traffic jam, here are some of the most significant records struck in 2021.
