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The groundwork for the billionaire space race and private spaceflight was arguably laid by Peter Diamandis, an American entrepreneur. In the 1980s, he founded an American national student space society, the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS). Later, Jeff Bezos became a chapter president of SEDS.
30 September 2009. 11 October 2009. First Canadian space tourist; Last space tourist before the U.S. STS Space Shuttle programme shut down, and increase in long-term ISS crew to 6, leading to a decade without space tourist flights to the ISS. [ 3][ 1][ 12][ 13] Richard Branson. Virgin Galactic Unity 22.
Robert Thomas Bigelow [1] [2] (born May 12, 1944) is an American businessman. He owns Budget Suites of America and is the founder of Bigelow Aerospace. [3] [4] Bigelow has provided financial support for investigations of UFOs and parapsychological topics, including the continuation of consciousness after death. [5]
As the billionaire space race heats up, a new Discovery+ special is going inside Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson’s ambitious attempt to revolutionize space exploration. Ahead of its ...
Traveller is an Origins Award winning science fiction role-playing game published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1977. It is a time when interstellar travel has become possible and Humaniti has met other starfaring races. Traveller: 2300 portrayed humans as technologically advanced, but having a level of civilization not very far above ...
Traveller is a science fiction role-playing game first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop. Marc Miller designed Traveller with help from Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, and Loren Wiseman. [ 1] Editions were published for GURPS, d20, and other role-playing game systems. From its origin and in the currently published systems, the game ...
There's a new space race in the world, but this one isn't being driven by competing governments, but rather by billionaires. Some of the biggest names in business, from Richard Branson to Jeff ...
www .markshuttleworth .com. Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. [ 1] In 2002, Shuttleworth became the first South African to travel to space, doing so as a space ...