2004: The Year Space Tourism Finally Took Off
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The dream of opening space to the general public was given a tremendous boost in 2004 with SpaceShipOne's prize-winning suborbital jaunt and congressional legislation to help establish a space travel industry in the United States. But even the biggest champions of commercial spaceflight acknowledge that a vital space tourism market is still years from becoming reality.
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SPACE.com / NASA started it all back in 1976 with an image of an interesting mountain on Mars and a caption that described it as appearing to have eyes and nostrils.
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When a privately built rocket plane soared into space earlier this month, astronaut wannabes were giddy with the hope that they&#39;d finally make it off the planet.
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While the exploration of the Moon and other planets in our solar system is&nbsp;exciting, the first task for astronauts and robots alike is to actually&nbsp;get to those destinations.
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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 - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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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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One short flight for man, or the start of a long voyage for rich men. That&#39;s one way of looking at Monday&#39;s historic jaunt of the revolutionary spacecraft SpaceShipOne, which crossed the brink of space for the second time in six days.
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Sending people to the moon and Mars is no longer just President Bush&#39;s vision. It&#39;s officially the United States&#39; new mission in space.
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MORE than Â£800million has been pledged to Sir Richard Branson&#39;s space travel adventure - - years before the ship has even been built.
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The advent of space tourism is one step closer with the safe return this week of a private manned rocketship from âthe edge of spaceâ.
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As humanity&#39;s continuous presence in space begins its fifth year aboard the International Space Station, the next inhabitants rocket into Earth orbit late Wednesday for a six-month expedition.
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Marketing is a big part of the private space race - and, its boosters say, an essential one.
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The first privately financed manned rocket to fly into space has been named Time magazine&#39;s âInvention of the Year.&#39;&#39;.
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Now that rocketmen in the desert have soared into space and captured the St. Louis-based Ansari X Prize, commercial space travel seems as close as ever.
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SpaceShipOne's second flight laid the foundations for what organizers hope will be a new era of cheap, reliable access to space.
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Chinese people are expected to realise their dream of space tourism in 20 years with the country conducting research into the commercialisation of space technology, a senior space official has said.
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It was the starting point for dozens of commercial communications satellites, military spacecraft and pioneering space probes, including the first man-made object to journey outside our solar system.