Circa 2012 One day ice from could be transformed to metal the be transported anywhere even into space.
Researchers have combined high-powered computing and ‘chemical intuition’ to discover new phases of ice at extremely high pressures nonexistent on Earth, but probably abundant elsewhere in the solar system. (Jan. 16, 2012)
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has officially approved Jeff Bezos 
Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston BezosFAA approves Blue Origin launch with Bezos, others aboard Richard Branson’s launch changes the way we look at space Branson, Bezos and Musk: A new space race for a new generation MORE ’s highly anticipated spaceflight next week aboard a rocket developed by his aerospace company, Blue Origin.
The license, which was approved by the FAA on Monday and is valid through August, comes as Bezos, along with his brother and two others, are scheduled to launch into space next Tuesday on the New Shepard rocket.
The flight is part of an effort by billionaire-owned technology and transportation companies to make space flight a commercially available experience.
After Sir Richard Branson’s spaceflight this weekend, the leader of Russia’s main space corporation, Roscosmos, offered some kind words about the achievement on Twitter. Dmitry Rogozin called the flight a “landmark” in terms of technology development and expanding the number of humans able to see Earth from space.
Then Rogozin went a step further, lamenting the fact that Russia’s “billionaire oligarchs” spend their money on yachts and vanity projects rather than the development of space technology and increasing humanity’s knowledge of space.
This is a notable comment from Rogozin, who in the past has been critical of one particular billionaire spending his money developing space technology: SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Among other remarks, Rogozin has said that NASA should not get too cocky about its newfound access to space in case SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicle “breaks.” He has also said that SpaceX is “gentle” for getting to work in the balmy conditions of South Texas, while Russian engineers and technicians work in the depths of Siberia during the winter.
NASA and the US Department of Energy awarded three $5m contracts to produce reactor-design concepts for trips to Mars.
How many rocket engines does it take to build a city on Mars?
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to build a Mars city. Here’s how many engines his Starship will need to get there.
The four citizen astronauts flying to space with Inspiration4 this September experienced weightlessness for the first time this weekend during a zero-g training flight.
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Join the SRIC3 final event big party!
Here’s where you can find the Zoom coordinates to join us celebrating the 2021 Space Renaissance Congress completed:
Though the voting process will remain open until Thursday July 15th, i am happy to announce that **we have elected the new President of Space Renaissance International, Prof. Bernard Foing, and the new Board of Directors!**
Hereafter the received votes so far, that assure we passed the quorum, and the election of our new leadership.
63, 77% of the having right to vote voted so far on the 3 final motions, namely:
Bizarre coincidence or fate?
One of the leading developers of rocket technology for the Nazis during World War II appears to have predicted the rise of an “Elon” that would one day rule over human colonies on Mars.
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was an engineer born in Germany shortly before the beginning of the First World War. As a teenager, he became passionate about space flight and ended up working on liquid-fuel rockets for the German army in 1932.
To the moon — and beyond.
A new partnership just announced by NASA makes it official that the space agency is very much in the business of getting back to the moon.
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Richard Branson has finally launched to the edge of space aboard his Virgin Galactic space plane, a flight more than 15 years in the making. The billionaire has narrowly become the first person to fly on a spacecraft of their own making, beating Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos by a matter of days.
On 11 July, the VSS Unity launched from New Mexico, taking Branson, two pilots and three other passengers on a 90-minute suborbital flight to an altitude of 85 kilometres.
