An interesting tidbit from the most recent season of Mad Men (the critically acclaimed drama series about Madison Avenue advertising execs in the early 1960′s) was the depiction of Conrad Hilton as seriously interested in putting a hotel on the moon. I don’t if this is historically accurate, but it was completely believable. It made […]
Click for larger image SpaceShipTwo is more than twice the size of the original, x-prize-winning SpaceShipOne.
Not necessarily inexpensive, though. If I wanted to, I could drop my remaining 231 pounds more or less instantaneously. But the effect would only last about four minutes and it would cost about $4000 bucks: Zero gravity, once an exclusive playground for astronauts and select scientists, is no longer out of reach to everyday people. […]
Rand Simberg has the details: Bigelow announced at lunch that he will be putting up a three-person space station in late 2009 or early 2010, about fifty percent bigger than an ISS module. He is putting up a destination in hopes that the transportation will come along (and in order to spur the transportation providers). […]