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Elon Musk Thinks A Ticket To Mars Will Cost Around $500,000
SpaceX Trip To Mars Commercial flights to space are looking likely to form part of practical reality for consumers within the next 5 years. Well, depending on how much money you have at least. Incidentally, at the risk of avoiding a Back To The Future II or Blade Runner prediction…
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UK-Build ‘Prime’ Rocket Design Revealed
Prime Rocket While the UK might have had a hand in the rocket industry over the years, as a country it has largely not been involved in what you might call the manufacturing and ‘blast-off’ phase. It seems, however, that this might be about to change and in the not…
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China and European Space Agencies Partnering Up to Build Moon Base
Originally thought of as just something out of science fiction, a lunar base might actually be possible soon with Chinese and European space agencies collaborating to make it happen. The discussions between China and European agencies were confirmed by ESA’s Pal Hvistendahl, who spoke of a planned human-occupied “moon village”.…
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SpaceX Preparing to Fly Reused Rocket for the First Time
Most people believe that recycling is a good thing, especially if it means saving millions of dollars on materials and labor. This is one of the reasons why the impending launch of SpaceX’ rocket on March 30th is getting a lot of attention because it will verify whether SpaceX’ Falcon…
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Inspired from Star Wars: Reusable Rockets from SpaceX
Elon Musk is a smart man, with SpaceX already using reusable rockets, but this is an amplified version. Musk has said that SpaceX is currently testing new “technologies that will assist future Falcon 9 launches, including “X-wing style” control fins and a drone ship.” The fins, would deploy on re-entry, giving the rocket…
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