Fwd: FUTURE OF SPACE TRAVEL

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Date: Oct 11, 2007 10:33 AM
Subject: FUTURE OF SPACE TRAVEL
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In this artist rendering released by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in April 2005, a manned spacecraft flies to the moon from Earth.

On October 5 JAXA's lunar probe called SELENE achieved orbit around the moon, a first step in Japan's goal to build a moon base by 2030.

 

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An artist's rendering of a planned Singapore spaceport that will be used to take tourists on sub-orbital flights.

The spaceport is being developed by private firm Space Adventures one of the leading players in commercializing space travel.

"Suborbital flights will offer millions of people the opportunity to experience the greatest adventure available: space travel," Space Adventures president and CEO Eric Anderson told the news agency AFP in 2005.

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is developing a similar spaceport in New Mexico.

 

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An artist's concept shows a racetrack for rocket-powered jets that will be developed in New Mexico in 2008.

A venture by Peter Diamandis, chair and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, the Rocket Racing League will feature craft similar to the podracers of Star Wars fame.

The first generation racers will hug the surface of the planet, and seven years later will speed through suborbital arcs into space, league officials say.

By 2025 the futuristic race will circumnavigate the Earth in lower orbit.

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An artist's concept depicts a Mars outpost 50 years in the future.

Robert Zubrin, an aerospace engineer and leading advocate for human colonization on Mars, said the ultimate goal to ring in Sputnik's hundredth anniversary should be to transform Mars into a new sanctuary for human civilization.

The first Martian colonies could be created by building pressurized geodesic domes to shelter humans and plants. Within 50 years of re-engineering Mars, the planet might hold up to 10,000 people, including the first generation of humans to be born on Mars.

Remaking Mars in Earth's image, Zubrin said, could become the first stepping stone toward human migration throughout the Milky Way.

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