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Americans are good at democratizing things. Space is next. | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sixty years and two months after Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and their guests became the first private passengers to reach space aboard private rocket ships, and Bezos’s rocket just happened to be dubbed the New Shepard.…
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Americans are good at democratizing things. Space is next. | Vince Bzdek
Sixty years and two months after Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and their guests became the first private passengers to reach space aboard private rocket ships, and Bezos’s rocket just happened to be dubbed the New Shepard. The touchdowns of Bezos’s rocket last week and Shepard’s six…
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2021 Space Symposium in Colorado Springs will be hybrid event
The Space Symposium will be a hybrid in-person and online event in August to comply with state COVID-19 pandemic restrictions limiting attendance to nearly 6,000, the Space Foundation announced Wednesday. The Colorado Springs-based foundation opened registration Friday for in-person attendance at the event, scheduled for Aug. 23-26 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. It will…
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Space Command general gets questions on Alabama move, but has few answers for senators
The general atop U.S. Space Command told federal lawmakers Tuesday that he doesn’t know how much it would cost to uproot his headquarters to Alabama or how many of the command’s civilian workers — two-thirds of his staff — would follow it south. During a Senate hearing, Gen. James Dickinson said the command now plans…
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Venture capital funding bypasses Colorado Springs in 2020
Venture capital funding bypassed Colorado Springs in 2020, even as such financing hit a 20-year high in Colorado and a record nationwide, according to a report. The dearth of money for local startups last year was the first time such companies failed to land venture capital funding since 2007, according to the MoneyTree Report from…