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Uh in america the average house is $100k at least in my neighborhood...
It all depends on location. Where I live, the average house is more expensive than that.
Uh in america the average house is $100k at least in my neighborhood...
Uh in america the average house is $100k at least in my neighborhood...
Avatar director James Cameron might be the first client for a Soyuz flight around the Moon - an unconfirmed rumor, though!
That would be great! From reading that article, I suspect any film he did produce from up there would be truly inspirational (and a welcome boost to space programs!).
That's what wikileaks is for :lol:But the actors were the ISS crew, and NASA decided that it didn't reflect the things NASA stands for. So Garriot isn't allowed to release it publicly.
Freedom and democracy, Yay!!!! :facepalm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apogee_of_Fear
But the actors were the ISS crew, and NASA decided that it didn't reflect the things NASA stands for. So Garriot isn't allowed to release it publicly.
Thank God it's on a russian Soyuz and not on any NASA craft. NASA's censorship would probably turn any film into a celebration of itself.
What does Apogee of Fear have that we haven't seen in any other film before? Is Apogee of Fear a solid 8 minutes of the ISS crew swearing in Russian and mooning the Earth through Zvezda's windows?
The MAKS 2011 airshow in Moscow last week provided that nation’s often opaque aerospace industry an opportunity, if ever so briefly, to emerge from the shadows and shine in the light of day. The annual event also gave us a bit of a peek into that nation’s commercial space efforts, which promise joy rides around the moon, a private space hotel, and a resumption of billionaut flights to the International Space Station.
And yet, amid all the hype, there’s evidence that these ventures, like almost everything else in “NewSpace”, are continuing to slip into the future amid fresh worries that there is not enough money to accomplish all of them.The answer to that will have a major impact on the future of Energia, the Russian space company that is playing a key role in all three commercial ventures.
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Armadillo performed two launches last weekend. The rockets did leave the pad but both had problems during flight. See the videos and descriptions here:
Tube Rocket and SuperMod Launch Report.
http://armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=375
The first appeared to have problems with guidance and control. Armadillo appeared to have this solved for their hovering tests and their tethered tests. But presumably it's a more difficult problem when the rocket is traveling at high speed and the corrections have to be made at a faster rate.
The second rocket appears to have been damaged during transport, so it will be interesting to see if they can get a successful flight with an undamaged rocket.
Bigelow Aerospace is firing 64 out of its 115 employees.
Source:
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/...er+Sponsor+Logo_6_*Top+Story_sec-col1-m0_News
Comment: another one bites the dust
Blue Origin also failed in its initial attempt at high speed suborbital flight, though it also had been successful at hovering flight:
Article:
Secretive Private Spaceship Builder Reports Rocket Failure
by Leonard David, SPACE.com’s Space Insider Columnist
Date: 02 September 2011 Time: 06:16 PM ET
http://www.space.com/12824-blue-origin-private-spaceship-rocket-failure.html
I suggest consulting with Draper Labs for advice on their guidance and control problems. Draper has experience going back decades since the Apollo missions in G & C. Considering Draper's involvement with some teams in the Google Lunar X-prize competition none of whom are heavily financed the consultation might be of comparatively low price.
Bob Clark
Armadillo Aerospace has now succeeded in launching their rocket to high altitude:
Armadillo Launches STIG A Rocket to 137,500 Feet From Spaceport America
Posted by Doug Messier on December 6, 2011, at 12:31 pm in News.
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/12...rocket-to-124000-feet-from-spaceport-america/
Armadillo Stiga rocket high altitude launch to nearspace - YouTube
Congrats to Armadillo and John Carmack. They apparently have solved the problem of instability at high velocity. No doubt getting to the full altitude for space at 100 km will come in short order as well. :thumbup: