Spaceflight to cost $40 million in 2009
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Blog: Space Adventures says the cost of a flight to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz rocket will go up as much as $20 million in coming years because of inflation.
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Launched nearly eight years ago, the International Space Station is an orbiting laboratory that NASA considers crucial to its ambitions to send humans to Mars.
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Just how much is that vacation into orbit going to cost? By Aria Pearson and Adam Rogers from Wired magazine.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - The world's first privately  funded manned spacecraft soared to the blackened frontiers of  space for the second time in a week on Monday, setting set a  new altitude record and clinching a $10 million prize designed  to spur commercial space travel
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SpaceShipOne is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize, a &#36;10 million award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.
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OUTLOOK FOR HUBBLE: The newest report on a plan to save the popular, aging space telescope by repairing it with a robot says it would cost &#36;2 billion and have just a 50-50 chance of working.
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WASHINGTON &mdash; NASA has narrowed the field of private space companies vying for $175 million in public funds the U.S. space agency expects to award in early February for demonstration flights to the International Space Station, according to industry sources closely following the competition.
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A new report released by an American Physical Society (APS) Special Committee on NASA Funding for Astrophysics has questioned the space agency's Moon, Mars and Beyond initiative. The APS assessment warns that t  he cost of overcoming technological challenges to make real the plan could far exceed budgetary projections and that numerous&nbsp;approved science programs could be jeopardized.
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An aerospace research group says trying to fix the famed space telescope using a robot would cost two (b) billion dollars and take at least five years to get things ready.
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Excerpt from report by Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency  Astana, 12 June: Some 316m dollars should be allocated from the state budget annually for creating the space sector in Kazakhstan, the head of the National Space Agency, Talgat Musabayev, has said.
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SpaceShipOne, the Paul Allen-backed venture that&#39;s attempting to take paying passengers into suborbital space for the first time, has completed the first leg of its effort to win a $10 million prize.
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Entrepreneur and part-time daredevil Richard Branson plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds.
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OUTLOOK FOR HUBBLE: The newest report on a plan to save the popular, aging space telescope by repairing it with a robot says it would cost $2 billion and have just a 50-50 chance of working.
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SpaceShipOne, the world&#39;s first privately funded manned spacecraft, on Monday reached space for the second time in less than a week to win a $10 million prize designed to spur commercial space travel.
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(InfoWorld) - Google will pay up to $30 million in prize money to anyone able to land a privately funded spacecraft on the moon, because "it's cool," the company said on its blog. "More seriously, space exploration has a remarkable history of producing technological breakthroughs," wrote Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering, on Google's blog. He cited ablative heat shields, asteroid mining, invisible braces, and the Tang orange drink as past achievements, and said the prize money could lead to further developments in robotics, new space-age materials, precision landing control technology, "and who knows what else." Teams from around the world will vie for the Google Lunar X-Prize by building lunar missions complete with robotic rovers capable of roaming the surface of the moon for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and other data back to Earth, according to a statement from the X Prize Foundation. The X Prize Foundation is best known for another space competition, the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private suborbital spaceflight, won by SpaceShipOne three years ago. Google teamed up with the foundation on the lunar project. A grand prize of $20 million will go to the first team to land a privately funded spacecraft to the Moon and complete several tasks. Bonuses of up to $5 million can be earned from roaming an additional 5,000 meters on the surface of the Moon, finding and photographing man made artifacts left on the lunar surface, such as hardware from one of the Apollo missions, discovering water ice, and surviving a lunar night, a frigid affair lasting 14.5 Earth days, the foundation said. The remaining $5 million will be paid to the second place finisher in the competition. Images from the lunar landing will be available online at the Google Lunar X Prize Web site. There is a time limit to the competition. The value of the grand prize will drop to $15 million after Dec. 31, 2012, and on Dec. 31, 2014 the contest will end unless extended by Google and the X Prize Foundation.
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US space agency NASA unveiled a new computer yesterday that its creators claim is the fastest in the world. Project Columbia, named for the space shuttle that was destroyed early last year, cost $US50million
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WASHINGTON &mdash; NASA awarded Zero Gravity Corp. a $4.7 million, one-year contract to conduct parabolic flights aboard its specially modified Boeing 727 jetliner to provide brief periods of weightlessness for agency experiments and personnel.