As a species, at some point we’re going to need to get off this rock and find another suitable place to live. The problem, of course, is that the vast distances involved in space travel that goddamn rule about not traveling faster than the speed of light really limit our options. Project Orion was an…
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For people wanting to enter suborbital space, a company called Space Adventures is poised to dramatically lower the cost for a brief trip off-planet. Space Adventures is developing a suborbital reusable launch vehicle that will cost it about $20 million to build and be able to ferry tourists into suborbital space for a few minutes…