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Virgin Galactic is giving its customers a first look inside the cabin that will carry them to the edge of space and back, as the space tourism company gets closer to finishing development of its spacecraft.
“Every seat is a window seat,” Virgin Galactic design director Jeremy Brown told CNBC about the interior.
The cabin’s design is the central piece of the company’s product, especially due to the variety of stages during a Virgin Galactic spaceflight. In all, a trip will last about 90 minutes from takeoff to landing. But that will include taking off from a runway under the power of a jet-powered carrier aircraft, a brief free-fall after the spacecraft is released from under the aircraft at about 50,000 feet altitude, a rocket-powered burst of acceleration skyward hitting more than three times the speed of sound and then a few minutes floating weightless in micro-gravity at the edge of space.
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Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley made history getting to the space station. Now they’re coming home.
After Elon Musk mentioned that Tesla was working on a couple more vehicles, a compact car and “high capacity” vehicle, my mind started to race about how this van-like vehicle could use all of the technologies that Elon has mentioned in various interviews. First, let’s cover the basics that I’m 99% sure the vehicle will have. I got some of these ideas from one of my Cybertruck articles. After that, I’ll take things in a little different direction than our previous “Tesla Cybervan” article.
As I get ready to launch to Mars in days, take a look at some of the tools I’m taking to help me search for signs of ancient life.
Zoom in, rotate or mouse over a 3D interactive of the Mars 2020 Perseverance science tools.
APOD: Tianwen-1 Mission to Mars (2020 Jul 25)
Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
The nation has also generated significant additional value in logistics by creating new manufacturing capacities and know-how. There are already multiple businesses outside the realm of the space industry that have benefited from knowledge transfer. These are all typical impacts of a space mission.
But while that is where most studies of the value of space missions stop looking for impact, for the UAE this would miss a huge part of the picture. Ultimately, its Mars mission has generated transformative value in building capacity for a fundamentally different future national economy – one with a much stronger role for science and innovation.
Through a broad portfolio of programmes and initiatives, in just a few years the Hope mission has boosted the number of students enrolling in science degrees and helped create new graduate science degree pathways. It has also opened up new sources of funding for research and made science an attractive career.
Antimatter drive propulsion to Mars in 300 days.
Mars is the most habitable planet in the Solar System after Earth. But how long does it take to get to Mars? Depending on the technology, the red planet’s position, and some other things, somewhere between 150 to 300 days.
Once every two years or so, Mars and Earth reach their closest points, with the red planet being as close as 55 million kilometers / 34 million miles.
