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Personal Missile Will Send You Into Sub-Orbit
ohgizmo.com - 10/25/2008
Personal Missile Will Send You Into Sub-Orbit
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By Evan Ackerman The options at the moment for getting into orbit (or even sub-orbit) as a private citizen are somewhat limited. You can spend a week on the ISS (for $25 million), buy a seat on Virgin Galactic (for $200,000 pretty soon), or get there on a technicality in a MiG 31 (for ...

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Personal space capsule: Stuffed in a missile, send you into orbit
TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff — ... using two sets of parachutes to make it safely back to the earth…. This personal space capsule is expected to be much cheaper than the above-mentioned options, although no price has been specified yet at the current stage of development. But having to be stuffed in an overly packed capsule like this shouldn’t be fun at all and some more you have to travel alone, which your life will be at pretty high risk. Attached below is the video that shows the booster of this space capsule. source [ohgizmo] space tourist,space traveling Technorati Tags: ...

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