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As space tourism needs regulation, Jesuit astronomer is ready to go
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - With private companies planning to expand their offerings in orbital and suborbital space tourism and more and more civilians already shooting into space, a Jesuit astronomer has said that if ever the opportunity is…
Japan plans remote-controlled robotic space tourism to the ISS and beyond • The Register
International Space Station Obtains Publicly Controllable Mobile Robot "Space Avatars" From Earth, Thanks To Joint Project Between Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) And ANA Holdings' Avatarin Telepresence Start-Up .
The project…
Democratic representative proposes days of tax on space tourism after first private flights
Days after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos launched successful tourist flights to space, Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) proposed a tax on private space travel.The Securing Carbon Emissions Protection Act (SPACE) would establish a new…
View: The economy, not the sky, is the limit of space tourism
There would have been no better way to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the first moon landing than this month's series of space flights heralding a new era in space tourism. Flamboyant Virgin Galactic owner Richard Branson and his crew -…
Space tourism: what about the environmental balance?
By Eloise Marais for La Conversation,The business race to get tourists to space is intensifying between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On Sunday, July 11, Branson traveled 80 km to reach the edge…
Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights
The combustion of these thrusters provides the energy necessary to launch rockets into space while generating greenhouse gases and air pollutants. Large amounts of water vapor are produced by burning the BE-3 propellant, while the…
Space tourism tax proposed to boldly go where no tax has gone before
Representative Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat who represents Portland and some of its suburbs, proposed a tax on space tourists on Tuesday, the same day that Bezos, his brother Mark, and two other passengers took a brief rocket trip to the…
Opinion: We need climate action, not space tourism | Reviews | DW
I care about the future; therefore, I care about the climate. I belong to the vast majority of the world's citizens who, as poll after poll shows, care about the direction the planet is heading and understand the urgency and existential…
What Jeff Bezos, New Shepard and Blue Origin mean for space tourism
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos flew straight to the frontier of space. The billionaire - carried in a rocket built by his spaceflight company Blue Origin and accompanied by three other space tourists - joins a small but growing number of…
United States marks new chapter in space travel
Look back at Apollo as Bezos writes space history Lloyd Sowers Reports TAMPA, Florida - On July 20, 1969, man's first steps on the Moon made us wonder what our next step in space would be. “I think we all thought we would have…