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/PRNewswire/ -- The Space Frontier Foundation has announced Ann Kapusta, a veteran space operations and consulting expert, as its new Executive Director. The...

SILVER SPRING, Md., Feb. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Space Frontier Foundation has announced Ann Kapusta, a veteran space operations and consulting expert, as its new Executive Director. The Space

Its captain kirk versus the future king of england. actor william shatner who just this week became the oldest person to go to space is firing back at prince william for saying trips to the edge of space shouldnt take priority over fixing the planet. shatner said this is a baby step and the idea of getting industry out there so that all those polluting industries especially, for example, the industries that make electricity off of earth. interesting quote there from william shatner. cnns kristin...

"amazon unbound, jeff bezos" and i remember interviewed you a few years ago for the amazon documentary we did, do you remember that and we talked about this and we talked about space. and i asked you what does bezos want to do. what is the goal here. you have interviewed him and know and studied him so closely, what does he want to do from here with this? >> right, poppy. and the vision has been to consistent since he was a kid. he gave his high school valedictorian speech on his vision for spac...

The money was raised by auctioning off a seat on Blue Origins upcoming spaceflight. Blue Origins New Shepard Spacecraft First Step launches on a suborbital spaceflight from West Texas on April 14, 2021. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin raised some serious cash for space nonprofits from its recent auction of a trip to space with company founder Last month, the company auctioned off a seat on the first crewed flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, which is scheduled to lift off fr...

More frequently and expanding our space frontier and our space horizons. elon murveg has said his basic goal in building this company to begin with is to make planet earth and humanity a multiplanet species. and so his endeavor is to try to get people to mars as fast as possible with the contributions hes making. so what this does is it again opens up the doors and makes more of that exploration of space possible for much lower cost. >> elon musk also said this brings us closer one step closer t...

Saving $16 million for every one of those launches. what that does is drives down the cost for doing these launch biz a factor of 100 because the fuel used is only $200,000. so that means that you have much greater access by other users to space and it costs the operator so much less to operate all the equipment, as well. >> so what are the implications for space tourism? a lot of these private companies are trying these missions not specifically of this kind. but the lowering of the cost, i wou...

Was 8 years old my dad gave me a newspaper article about the rover. i looked at that newspaper article and said we need to send humans here, why not be me? so i have spent my entire life trying to be the best applicant, be the best candidate. and the reason i want to go is to help humanity, i want to be able to leave it all behind and give future generations something to look forward to. i wasnt born yet when we landed on the moon and that inspires me to push toward the space frontier. i want to...

Images. youve lived them yourself having flown on several space shuttles. do you think the turn of events today and mr. armstrong having passed, that will renew our energy, nothing political but us as americans and perhaps pushing the political folks to get involved and to actually be engaged and lets rethink this. nasa the space program is very much a part of our history and very important part of our history. >> armstrongs career is evident that the country can do tremendous things. i dont thi...

Have tried to catelize this. >> dylan, were living in a time where exponential technologies, robotics, computers, network systems, synthetic biology, all these things are tools that are empowering individuals to literally do what only governments and large corporations could do before. today an entrepreneur has the ability to touch in a positive way the lives of a billion people. its never been that way before. they are more empowered than ever. the question is, if they have that kind of power, ...