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Costs not rocketing as Colorado firms embrace space boom

Edit Denver Post 17 Apr 2016
Private space firms SpaceX and Blue Origin are driving costs down, interest up as commercial space race blossoms ... Last week, at the annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, commercial companies talked about how the race to bring down the cost even more ......

Kettering Cosmos: How school children exposed Soviet secret

Edit BBC News 16 Apr 2016
The teacher's name was Geoff Perry and he was fascinated by space satellites ... This came when the West was on the back foot in the Space Race, says Dr Matt Grant, senior lecturer at the University of Essex ... "It wasn't about studying the Russian space programme, it was about helping children understand space," he said ... For the culmination of a space project, pupils sent a toy dog called Sam up 15 miles (24km) into inner space....

Pong – The First Video Game Megahit

Edit About.com 15 Apr 2016
... to bop a digital ball back and fourth, was a historic mega hit that kick-started the video game industry and defined its space in pop-culture history ... After releasing a staggering number of Pong cabinets both domestic and abroad, as well as other arcade titles such as Space Race, Gotcha and Rebound, Atari was looking for it's next venture....

'Get your ass to Mars!' says Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin to Space Symposium crowd

Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 14 Apr 2016
... Symposium that it's time for America to go back to the heavens before the generation of men and women who launched America into the space race dies....

Space cowboy

Edit CNBC 14 Apr 2016
Jane Wells has the story of one billionaire who’s shaking up the space race ... ....

‘Everything to be done’ (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
the first says that the integration of efforts will progress and we will reach an exploration project supported by the whole humankind and its resources; the other is opposed, and it states that the competence among nations will be focused again on the achievements of exploration and we will see an increase of resources because of a new space race....

The First Human Into Space

Edit Universe Today 13 Apr 2016
Quite an honor, and quite an achievement for someone who, as a child, survived the Nazi occupation of Russia by living in a tiny mud hut with those members of his family who were not deported for slave labour by the Germans.The Space Race between the USA and the USSR was in full swing at the time of Gagarin's flight, and only one month after ......

The First Human in Space

Edit Universe Today 13 Apr 2016
Quite an honor, and quite an achievement for someone who, as a child, survived the Nazi occupation of Russia by living in a tiny mud hut with those members of his family who were not deported for slave labour by the Germans.The Space Race between the USA and the USSR was in full swing at the time of Gagarin's flight, and only one month ......

Cheaper Rockets Key to Space as Commercial Venture, Bezos Says

Edit Bloomberg 13 Apr 2016
“What’s important to me is lowering the cost of getting to space,” he said ... Beyond launching and landing rockets, Blue Origin is joining with United Launch Alliance to create a domestically built BE-4 engine capable of launching rockets by 2019, highlighting its position as a contender in the commercial space race, said Paul Kostek, a systems engineer with GE Aviation....

Meet The Amazing Women Who Launched America's First Rockets

Edit Popular Science 13 Apr 2016
Rise Of The Rocket Girls gives the untold story of the women behind the space race ....

Russian coaching speeds up Asian space race

Edit RBTH 12 Apr 2016
Asian nations are achieving liftoff with Moscow’s assistance ... ....

Bruce Wiegmann Developing Revolutionary Propulsion Technology (Marshall Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Apr 2016
Marshall Space Flight Center). Growing up in the Ohio River Valley region of West Virginia's Northern Panhandle in the 1960s, Bruce Wiegmann, an engineer in the Engineering Directorate's Advanced Concepts Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, could never have imagined a life that didn't revolve around the area's booming steel mills ... During his childhood, the country was also enthralled by the space race....

Russia celebrates 55 years in outer space

Edit RBTH 12 Apr 2016
From Yuri Gagarin and space race, to Russia's private satellites today ... ....
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