New Tourist Spacecraft Unveiled Posted: 9 months ago by willster09
The creator of SpaceShipOne, the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space, traveled to New York to show detailed models of the bigger SpaceShipTwo and its carrier airplane, WhiteKnightTwo.
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Women Tourist Launching into Space Posted: 2 years ago by Arrch8
Anousheh Ansari an Iranian-American entrepreneur is expected to blast off for the international space station in September. She is officially the first women tourist to travel in to space.
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Philip Isohe's detailed airplane models from rubbish Posted: 3 weeks ago by Bornbad
Philip Isohe and his hobby of making very detailed (and working) model airplanes and buses made from scratch
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First female space tourist returns to Earth Posted: 2 years ago by XXXXXPP
Iranian-born Anousheh Ansari, the world's first female space tourist, returned to Earth after her $20m vacation.
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Paper Airplane Set to Soar from Space Station Posted: 9 months ago by mitzuzake
A team from Japan's Tokyo University has crafted the highest of flyers: a paper airplane that will be launched from the International Space Station - where there is, um, no air...
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Scale models of tourist locations, at the locations themselves. Posted: 2 years ago by speedracer
Guy takes photos of toy models of famous tourist spots and then photographs them at the actual tourist spot.
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Spacecraft Beams Home New Images of Mercury Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists are sifting through their first new views of the planet Mercury in more than three decades thanks to images beamed home by NASA's MESSENGER probe. The car-sized spacecraft zipped past Mercury in a Monday flyby and is relaying more than 1,200 new images and other data back to eager scientists on Earth.
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Amazing Paper Airplane Flight Over NYC Posted: 9 months ago by misswinkle
This guy launches a paper airplane off the 30th floor of a building in the financial district of New York City. The flight it goes on without crashing is pretty amazing.
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Star Trek With The Sound Stylings of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit". Posted: 2 years ago by LatueOfStiberty
This is the weirdest thing I've seen all day. Enjoy folks.
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Space tourist in touches down in Kazakhstan Posted: 2 years ago by mrnelson
Borat celebrates alien visitor
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NASA Kepler Mission Offers Opportunity to Send Names Into Space Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
How cool would it be to have your name on board the spacecraft that discovers the first known Earth-like planet beyond our solar system? Well, here's your chance. NASA today announced an opportunity for anyone to submit their name to be included on a DVD and rocketed into space as part of NASA's Kepler Mission, scheduled to launch in February 2009 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
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First unchanging 'soliton' wave found in space Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
An unusual electrical disturbance has been spotted in space, travelling unchanged through the ionised gas surrounding Earth. A European space mission called Cluster detected a "soliton" wave, a phenomenon similar to the self-contained solitons that can travel along optical fibres and channels of water on Earth. This is the first known soliton in space.
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