Satellite launched to test space hotel concept
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Russia launched Thursday a satellite designed to test the feasibility of the world&#39;s first space hotel, the brainchild of a Las Vegas hotel tycoon who hopes to begin construction in 2011, officials said.
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pioneering bid to win a $10 million (5.6 million pounds) prize and prove that space is open for business. space travel as ordinary as a Caribbean cruise.
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British entrepreneur Richard Branson on Thursday unveiled an interior mock-up of the suborbital spaceship that his company plans to use to take paying passengers into space.
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Â· Moscow 'space flight' to simulate mission to Mars Â· Britons seek places in cramped static cabin
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PARIS - European aerospace company EADS on Wednesday unveiled a model of a jet designed to take tourists into space, rocketing paying passengers to weightlessness at more than 62 miles above the Earth.
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The test that appeared to move Iran closer toward its aim of putting its own satellites into space.
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When NASAs Genesis solar-wind sample return capsule skyrockets from space next week and drops into the Utah Test and Training Range, that landmark in civilian space draws upon a once classified satellite snooping program.
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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China launched an experimental satellite into orbit Sunday, atop a Long March 2C carrier rocket; reported Xinhua, China&#39;s government-run news agency.
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Astronauts at the International Space Station Tuesday opened up the new Columbus laboratory, a research facility that gives Europe a key foothold for the deeper exploration of the cosmos.
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Traveling in space has been a desire for many since ages. Nevertheless, it only seems to be coming true in this millennium. Even though we are still years away from mass scale space tourism, the enthusiasm
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Science & environment: The countdown is on for the first regular space tourists to rocket into space
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NASA is studying the potential of future cooperation with the suborbital tourism firm Virgin Galactic on a variety of fronts, agency officials announced Wednesday.
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An in-car satellite radio and multimedia system that could use out-of-date satellites is unveiled.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA officials hoped an opening in the cloud cover would allow space shuttle Discovery to lift off Thursday for the first night launch in four years, starting a complex mission to rewire the international space station.
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NASA is launching satellites Friday to determine what's behind destructive energy pulses.
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Virgin Galactic shows off the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space.