Archive for the December 2009

31
Dec

Have a drink of space beer!

Japanese company “Sapporo Breweries” has produced “space beer“. Sapporo Holdings is one of Japan’s largest makers alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, including beer.
The beer is made from barley grown in space. The barley was grown on the International Space Station as part of a five-month experiment carried out by Sapporo, the Russian Academy of Science and [...]

(Have a drink of space beer!)
31
Dec

At the moment we carry on negotiations with Interorbital Systems (IOS) on the subject of sending of our picture catalogue into space. Interorbital Systems (IOS), a rocket and spacecraft manufacturing company is ready to send our photo catalogue to the orbit in December of 2010.
Planet Earth has entered the [...]

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31
Dec

Space tourism from Virgin Galactic.

Virgin Galactic has released the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space.  It is based on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne concept – a rocket ship that is lifted initially by a carrier plane before blasting skywards. The Virgin system is essentially a refinement, but has been increased in size to [...]

(Space tourism from Virgin Galactic.)