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Apr122022 by adminNo Comments

Space Perspective unveils luxurious interior of balloon-launched spaceflight experience

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ORLANDO, Fla., April 12 (UPI) -- Want to be a space tourist but can't spend tens of millions of dollars? Space Perspective, a Florida-based space tourism company, is working on another option that falls in the six-figure range. On Tuesday, the company provided a sneak peek into the luxurious $ 125,000-per-ride accommodations its passengers will enjoy as they stare down Earth from a vantage point that has mostly been limited to astronauts, the super rich and the super lucky. Coinciding with the anniversary of the first human spaceflight, the company released artist's illustrations of the interior of its crew capsule, called the Spaceship Neptune. The vessel is named for the Roman god of the sea and 8th planet in the solar system. Passengers who climb aboard will enjoy 360-degree panorami...

Mar12021 by adminNo Comments

Interior Department promises help for coal communities

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March 1 (UPI) -- The Biden administration announced Monday more than $ 260 million available to assist communities struggling with the decreased demand for coal. The Interior Department said more than $ 152.22 million is now available through the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act's Abandoned Mine Land grant program. The department said it will also distribute $ 115 million through the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization grant program. Advertisement "The Abandoned Mine Land grant programs provide an important opportunity to revitalize local economies, support jobs and address environmental impacts to communities from these legacy developments," the Interior Department's Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Laura Daniel Davis said in a statement. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., c...

Jul282020 by adminNo Comments

Virgin Galactic shows off passenger spaceship cabin interior

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Virgin Galactic has revealed what the interior of the rocket ship will look like that will carry passengers on suborbital flights into the space's lower reachesBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated PressJuly 28, 2020, 10:08 PM4 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleLOS ANGELES -- Passengers flying Virgin Galactic on suborbital trips into space will be able to see themselves floating weightless against the backdrop of the Earth below while 16 cameras document the adventures, the company said Tuesday. Highly detailed amenities to enhance the customer flight experience were shown in an online event revealing the cabin of the company’s rocket plane, a type called SpaceShipTwo, which is undergoing testing in preparation for commercial service. There are a dozen windows for viewing, s...

Nov272018 by adminNo Comments

Mars: Nasa lands InSight robot to study planet's interior

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The US space agency Nasa has landed a new robot on Mars after a dramatic seven-minute plunge to the surface of the Red Planet.The InSight probe aims to study the world's deep interior, and make it the only planet - apart from Earth - that has been examined in this way.Confirmation of touchdown came through on cue at 19:53 GMT.It ended an anxious wait in which the robot radioed home a series of updates on its descent.Nasa's mission control at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) erupted into cheers when it became clear InSight was safe on the ground. The agency's chief administrator, James Bridenstine, celebrated what he called "an amazing day". President Trump had rung to offer his congratulations, he told reporters. And ...

Aug302018 by adminNo Comments

Warm water has penetrated the Arctic interior

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Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Arctic ice faces a threat from within, according to a new study by researchers at Yale University. Scientists have identified a mass of "archived" heat trapped beneath the Arctic surface. The mass of warm water originated from hundreds of miles away, but has infiltrated the Arctic interior. "We document a striking ocean warming in one of the main basins of the interior Arctic Ocean, the Canadian Basin," Mary-Louise Timmermans, a professor of geology and geophysics at Yale, said in a news release. Over the last three decades, the amount of heat in the Canadian Basin's upper ocean has doubled. Timmermans and her colleagues traced the heat source to waters a few hundred miles south, where sea ice losses have left the surface of the ocean exposed to the summer sun. Arctic win...