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Jessica Paré - New York Magazine by Zachary Scott, May 2012
Paré laughs easily and often, despite a case of extreme jet lag. Bali is fifteen hours...
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Does the future have a future? |
“ Pending final tests and checkout, NASA has agreed to let Space Exploration Technologies — SpaceX — combine two test flights of the company’s unmanned Dragon cargo ship into a single mission, aiming for a launch Feb. 7 to kick off a long-awaited fight to the International Space Station.
The primary goal of the demonstration mission is to test the capsule’s autonomous navigation and control systems before beginning routine commercial flights to deliver critical supplies to the lab complex.
“Pending all of the final safety reviews and testing, SpaceX will send its Dragon spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station in less than two months,” Lori Garver, NASA’s deputy administrator, said Friday. “So it’s the opening of that new commercial cargo delivery era for ISS.”” continue reading | CBS News
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Lift-off for the Los Angeles Space Salon |
Last Wednesday night marked the first gathering of the Los Angeles Space Salon, at the Brewery Arts Complex in Lincoln Heights. Organizers Scott Norman (SpaceX), Simone Syed (BIL co-founder), and Michael Clive (XCOR) lured out an extensive cross section of the aerospace community, traveling from San Diego to Mojave, to engage in a vibrant dialogue that featured an opening talk from Virgin Galactic’s Will Pomerantz.
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A notable highlight of the evening was a light verbal skirmish between John Spencer of the Space Tourism Society, who argued that the primary offering to the public should be “the space experience.” Molly McCormick, who splits her time between Raytheon and Orbital Outfitters countered that, “There are real, productive reasons to want to go to space that will benefit everyone. Space is more than an experience; it is a resource. There are things we can do and make in the microgravity of space that are extremely difficult or even impossible to do or make on Earth: exotic materials, precision components, satellites, medicines, etc.” continue reading | Los Angeles I’m Yours | Zachary Urbina
