Video game helps cancer research Jump to media player Scientists in Cambridge have developed a spaceship video game app which allows players to help researchers find new treatments for cancer.
Blue Origin, based in Kent, Wash., is developing a suborbital spaceship called New Shepard, which is to take off and land vertically for carrying people to the near edge of space.
China is also developing a cargo spaceship, which will weigh less than 13 tonnes and have a diameter of no more than 3.35 metres, to transport supplies and equipment to the space station.
NASA has chosen two aerospace companies to develop a commercial spaceship capable of flying cargo to the International Space Station.
Entrepreneur now is turning his attention from cyberspace to outer space: founded Blue Origin to develop a reusable spaceship for extraterrestrial tourism.
Stock and net worth soared 200% from a low in summer 2002, though the gregarious founder insists: "I don't keep track of daily stock swings". Now turning his attention from cyberspace to outer space: founded Blue Origin to develop a reusable spaceship for extraterrestrial tourism.
He envisages commercial ships ferrying supplies and astronauts to low-Earth orbit destinations like the ISS, while Nasa concentrates on developing a much more capable rocket and spaceship to venture out into the Solar System.
He envisages commercial ships ferrying astronauts and supplies to low-Earth orbit destinations like the ISS, while Nasa concentrates on developing a much more capable rocket and spaceship to venture out into the Solar System.
THE quests are monumental: end global warming; build a private spaceship; cure diseases; develop a car that can go 100 miles on a gallon of gas.
Both Alsbury and his co-pilot, Peter Siebold, 43 – who was being treated in hospital for "moderate to major" injuries after ejecting and parachuting to the ground – worked for Scaled Composites, the company developing the spaceship for Virgin Galactic.
During the nuclear war on earth, the Earth developed a radioactive surface, and for centuries afterwards what was left of humanity lived in spaceships above Earth's surface.
