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Blue Origin’s team wins $130M share of NASA funds for commercial space stations

GeekWire

The project is envisioned as an expandable business park, with Boeing’s Starliner space taxi and Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser space plane transporting passengers to and from low Earth orbit for tourism, research, in-space manufacturing projects and more.

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Jeff Bezos wants a low-orbit office park to replace the ISS

Vox

The goal, the company says, is to bring the “ mixed use business park ” concept into orbit and lease out office space to interested parties, including government agencies, researchers, tourism companies , and even movie production crews. Blue Origin has released conceptual renderings of what the Orbital Reef station could look like.

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship aces uncrewed rehearsal for crewed flight to space

GeekWire

If the program goes as hoped, Blue Origin could start flying people later this year. About a minute after launch, the craft was programmed to rotate at the rate of one complete turn every two to three minutes. Blue Origin builds the hardware for the suborbital New Shepard program at its headquarters in Kent, Wash.

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Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin promise details coming next week for how to buy first seat on spaceflight

GeekWire

Blue Origin builds the hardware for the suborbital New Shepard program at its headquarters in Kent, Wash. Cornell said spacefliers will arrive at Blue Origin’s “astronaut village” three days before their trip, and go through training sessions and simulations before they fly.

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Is AI technology the future of travel?

Dataconomy

Travel industry players are excited about predictions that AI could add around $1 trillion extra to the global tourism industry by 2025. Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) : It’s a combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IoT (Internet-connected hardware) that improves access control and personal security.

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Why Inspiration4’s ‘all-civilian’ trip to orbit represents the dawn of a second space age

GeekWire

And Ericson isn’t some starry-eyed space geek: He’s a former Air Force test pilot who’s also a veteran of Virgin Galactic’s suborbital space program. The time from inception to flight-ready hardware was basically six months. That’s a pretty significant thing. Try to do that on a government contract!”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Charity

ForAllSecure

Today Jinja is known for its tourism. And then he, he brings it to the states and he sells it, and it's funded a lot of really interesting programs over there. Kent: When we started this bio gas program I knew that there were cows, you know, Because my church had donated cows to various orphanages over there.

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