Tag: Space Travel
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How scientists are mitigating space travel’s risks to the human body
When 17 people were in orbit around the Earth all at the same time on May 30, 2023, it set a record. With NASA and other federal space agencies planning more manned missions and commercial companies bringing people to space, opportunities for human space travel are rapidly expanding. However, traveling to space poses risks to…
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Attention, Earthlings: Jeff Bezos wants everybody to watch this classic video about settling off planet
Jeff Bezos during Wired 25 on Monday. (Twitter screen grab via Wired) Jeff Bezos loves to talk about space. And in a talk about just that on Monday, he encouraged anyone who was listening to go listen to another classic talk about space. The Amazon CEO and Blue Origin founder was a guest at Wired…
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Planetary Resources founder: ‘Humans will migrate off Earth in the next 30 years’
Peter Diamandis, Chris Lewicki and Eric Anderson of Planetary Resources. Can you imagine packing your belongings and hopping on a spaceship to go live on another planet for the rest of your life? Eric Anderson, co-founder of Bellevue-based asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, certainly can. Anderson gave a great talk at this week’s Hacker News…
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Deep Space Industries entering asteroid-mining world, creates competition for Planetary Resources
Planetary Resources, the Bellevue-based asteroid-mining company backed by some of the biggest names in technology and aerospace, now has some more competition. A new Virginia-based space company called Deep Space Industries announced today that by 2015, it will be sending a 55-pound “FireFly” spacecraft into the sky in search of asteroids near earth. The company vows…
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Veteran NASA astronaut Nicholas Patrick joins Blue Origin as human integration architect
Veteran astronaut Nicholas Patrick is joining Blue Origin. Photo courtesy of NASA. Nicholas Patrick, the fifth British astronaut to go to space and a NASA veteran, has joined the Blue Origin team to provide his expertise as a human integration architect. Blue Origin, the often-secretive commercial space venture started by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is based…
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Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin, Boeing get NASA cash to build new spaceships
Boeing’s CST-100 Seattle may have lost a bid to house one of the retired Space Shuttles. But, who needs a clunky, old spacecraft, when you can actually play a part in building the next-generation space vehicle? Two companies with ties to Seattle, Boeing and Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin, have won tens of millions of dollars from…