Posts Tagged ‘NASA’
Japanese Billionaire Caps Record Space Tourism Year
By Tom Roeder troeder@SpaceFoundation.org The first self-funded space tourist to reach the International Space Station in more than a decade reached his destination aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule Wednesday. Japanese fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa paid $88 million for the ride, the BBC reported, and was accompanied on the trip by documentary filmmaker Yozo Hirano. Their…
Read MoreAntares NG-12 Resupply Mission Launches on 19th Anniversary of Space Station Inhabitation
THE SPACE FOUNDATION WALLOPS ISLAND, Virginia (Nov. 2, 2019) — Under a piercing blue sky and the shelter of a bright white tent Saturday, Terry Feehan had one question for the crowd before him: “Are you ready to RUMBLE?” The question took on an entirely different connotation coming from Feehan, a retired Air Force major…
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