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Virgin Galactic Gets Official Clearance to Start Flying Paying Customers to Space

Gizmodo

An upgraded FAA operators license now allows Virgin Galactic to include paying customers on its space flights, in what is a major milestone for the company and also the nascent space tourism sector. Read more.

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These remote workers moved to Portugal for work-life balance. Is their life as fun as it looks?

Vox

As a licensed clinical psychologist, she was seeing around 40 clients a week and spending hours in the car commuting. Tourism, too. Tourism hasn’t helped either. Therese Mascardo was done with the daily grind of life in Los Angeles. When foreign workers started showing up, so did a new energy. Carvalho and a team estimate an 8.5

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How to watch the countdown to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin suborbital space trip (and why)

GeekWire

He’s a native of the Netherlands who took a year off after high school graduation to get his private pilot’s license. In the months ahead, there’s likely to be a big reality check in the market for space tourism and human-tended space research — with Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and Space all vying for a share.

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Flight delayed? Blame a spaceship.

Vox

There were 54 licensed space launches overseen by the FAA last year, but the agency thinks that number could grow in 2022 thanks to the rise in space tourism, growing demand for internet satellites, and upcoming space exploration missions. And the frequency of launches is picking up.

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A tale of two spaceships: How Seattle tech titans helped launch suborbital space tours

GeekWire

Generic license. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo flights should be counted among the returns on Allen’s investment, according to Ed Lazowska, a professor at the University of Washington’s Paul G. PT, but technical issues or weather concerns could delay launch. The original image, as posted to Flickr , has been cropped.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, CIOs can buy an off-the-shelf system that costs X in license fees today and 20% of X every year as long as they are using it or they could choose to build the system in a manner where instead of X they incur 1.5X “It took some time for me to realize how to make the right tech choices.

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Who’s an astronaut? FAA weighs in on a murky issue for suborbital space travelers

GeekWire

Those guidelines suggest that astronaut wings can go only to crew members on a licensed spacecraft who contribute to flight safety and rise above the 50-mile altitude mark. The answer appears to be no, if you go by the Federal Aviation Administration’s newly issued guidelines for its commercial space astronaut wings program.

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