Outer Space Tourism Public Relations Purposes, Practices and Problems
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By Gibson, Dirk C  This paper describes and documents the surprising importance of public relations to outer space tourism. It is no overstatement to suggest that the future of outer space tourism depends as much on public relations as on any other single factor.
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A NASA-led team is studying the construction of a railway in space for a pair of telescopes that will provide views of planet, star, and galaxy formation in unprecedented detail. The proposed Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT) mission will also examine the atmospheric chemistry of giant planets around other stars.
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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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By Rasha Madkour Associated Press  HOUSTON -- Anyone who's ever tried to fold a well-used map can probably relate to the challenge Discovery astronauts face in the next phase of their mission.
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By The Associated Press. Photographs taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that active volcanoes may still exist on the planet, a finding that further erodes its image as a dead
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Space travel, education consultant Marie &quot;Mel&quot; Moreau says, is more than going up. &quot;Astronauts could not go up in space without people wanting to work as ground crew,&quot; she said. &quot;Proper communication is vitally important.
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The space program is rife with rituals, charms, lucky numbers and other defenses against bad karma &mdash; not just disaster but also weather problems.
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This is Part 2 of a five-part series covering the experiences of key participants in the Mars Exploration Rover mission. JPL and NASA have developed a structured way of doing business over the years. When you have a schedule crunch like we had, it puts a lot of pressure on that approach and it's almost impossible to do.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it&#39;s hard
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I have no problem with the photograph but why would you bother publishing the story of a complete waste-of space family in the first place? Giving such people any publicity is something you and all media should be ashamed of.
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Space travel should make human beings more aware of the fragility of the Earth's environment and intensify efforts to preserve the planet, &quot;space tourist&quot; Anousheh Ansari said before her trip to the International Space Station.
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Richard Branson conquered the world. Now he wants to fly you to space. By Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine.
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Wired's Michael Belfiore goes past Virgin's PR machine to assess the problems of Virgin Galactic's space venture. Pilot Brian Binnie and passengers talk risks and rewards.
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One way trip, no refunds Caution: this could be a one way trip. This is what would-be space tourists will have to be warned before they set off on sub-orbital jaunts, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said.â¦
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Is the real challenge for PR just &quot;influence&quot;? Or is it something bigger thatn that? If so, are there ways we can help PR move past its history of spinnage and into a future of usefulness? read more
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By Anonymous  Space as a Strategic Asset By Joan Johnson-Freese, Columbia University Press, March 2007, 304 pp.  Joan Johnson-Freese calls for U.S. space policy to lead the world to greater levels of cooperation and away from the trappings of an arms race in space.