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Space Adventures Offers Private Voyage To The Moon
moondaily.com ^
| 08/11/05
Posted on 08/11/2005 7:30:09 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Space Adventures announced Wednesday the availability of a commercial spaceflight to the far side of the moon. The company, which organized spaceflights for the world's first private space explorers, American businessman Dennis Tito and the 'First African in Space' Mark Shuttleworth, disclosed the details of the mission, called DSE-Alpha, during a press conference.
DSE-Alpha, the first in a series of lunar missions to be featured in Space Adventures' Deep Space Expeditions (DSE) program, is made possible through the company's long-standing partnership with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) and the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia).
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: moon; space; spaceadventures; spacetourism
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Cool...
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; ...
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:30:51 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: KevinDavis
Yawn.
Ralph Kramden was offering this service thruout the 1950's.
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:32:21 PM PDT
by
C210N
(Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present)
To: KevinDavis
We are going to get left behind if we don't get rid of NASA.
FUND private industry. Burt Rutan should ask for 20% of NASA's budget.
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:33:48 PM PDT
by
JeffersonRepublic.com
(Visit the Jefferson Republic for a conservative news portal.)
To: KevinDavis
$100,000,000.00? Well, if I get rid of digital cable...
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:34:15 PM PDT
by
Romish_Papist
(Check my FR page for samples of my VERY amateur photography.)
To: Romish_Papist; All
I think we should sponsor a freeper to go to the moon... We should hold a fundraiser....
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:35:33 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:39:19 PM PDT
by
marron
To: marron; All
or should we sponsor a troop to go into space (ie Virgin Galatic)???
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:40:45 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: KevinDavis
I would like to object to that suggestion. I know you're going to pick me to ride in that Russian Federation tin can, and I don't think that's very nice. LOL
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:40:50 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: KevinDavis
I should be the one sponsored......
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:41:21 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: DoughtyOne; All
Naw, I was going to pick me...
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:41:56 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: KevinDavis
I could clear my schedule......tee hee
To: EsmeraldaA
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:42:42 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: KevinDavis
In that case I'm all for it, but I do want to go on record as holding some reservations since I appreciate your posts so much.
The Ruskies never had anyone orbit the moon did they?
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:48:16 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: JeffersonRepublic.com
FUND private industry.Then it would no longer be private. This industry seems to be getting off the ground on its own (I don't know if you heard about the other service being offered by the X-Prize recipient for taking people into space for $200,000 apiece). Let's keep it that way.
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:50:17 PM PDT
by
inquest
(FTAA delenda est)
To: JeffersonRepublic.com
FUND private industry. Congress already does so, massively.
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:51:39 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
To: KevinDavis
They'll probably lose your luggage on the way...
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:53:08 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
To: inquest
"Then it would no longer be private."
Boeing is still private industry, yet they build rockets with taxpayer funds. They even have plans for an Orbital space plane, but NASA will never allow it.
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posted on
08/11/2005 7:58:45 PM PDT
by
JeffersonRepublic.com
(Visit the Jefferson Republic for a conservative news portal.)
To: DoughtyOne
No, they didn't, although they
tried. A combination of Korolov's death, Communist politics, and engineering problems contributed to the downfall of their lunar program.
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posted on
08/11/2005 8:00:43 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Thanks. That's the way I remembered it, but was suffering a serious case of the cobwebs.
I began to question if it was so inconsequential after we landed on the moon, that I just didn't bother remembering.
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posted on
08/11/2005 8:05:49 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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