Give Me Space (Space Travel News)

"One of the wheels on the Mars rover Spirit has stopped working, according to NASA's Web site..." The Martian winter is coming, and now the rover is at a race to find a location where it will be able of getting enough solar power.

Mars rover loses use of wheel

Space Adventures, a private company that has sent well-heeled tourists into space, announced Monday that it is partnering with a Singapore-based consortium to build a space station in the small island nation. The commercial spaceport will offer suborbital spaceflights, as well as operate astronaut training facilities and an educational visiting center for the public.

Space tourism is no vacation

"This is the end of the beginning," said Gregg Maryniak, X Prize Foundation Executive Director, shortly after Brian Binnie had piloted SpaceShipOne to a successful win of the $10 million Ansari X Prize.

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First entry on this blog is dedicated to an amazing website.

Its called "Space Travel 101: Fundamentals of Space Travel!"

It says learning about space travel can be fun and educational. This website brings both of these elements together. The purpose of this site is to explain how space travel is possible and introduce missions that, despite the dangers, have continued to be conducted.

On this website, you will learn the essentials of spacecraft and missions:
- Where a spacecraft gets energy
- How a spacecraft moves in space
- How astronauts can survive in space
- How a spacecraft re-enters Earth
- The dangers of space travels
- Different types of missions
- Different types of spacecraft

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