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		<title>SpaceX Launch of Falcon 9 Rocket and Dragon Capsule a Milestone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, SpaceX positioned itself among an elite class. Only the United States, Russia, Japan, India, China, and the European Space Agency (representing multiple countries) had successfully recovered a spaceship after it orbited the Earth and reentered the atmosphere. Yesterday, Space Exploration Technologies Inc., referred to often as SpaceX, became the first private company to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spaceshiptourist.com/2010/12/spacex-falcon-9-dragon-capsule/</link>
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		<title>SpaceX Obtains First Commercial Reentry License From FAA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Space Explorations Technology Corp., otherwise know as SpaceX, received the first FAA approved commercial spaceship reentry license from the agency on Monday.
In a statement released by NASA, the agency&#8217;s Administrator, Charlie Bolden, said that &#8220;With this license in hand, SpaceX can proceed with its launch of the Dragon capsule. The flight of Dragon will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spaceshiptourist.com/2010/11/spacex-reentry-license-fa/</link>
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		<title>Kennedy Space Center Space Shuttle Launch 2nd to Last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The November 1st Space Shuttle Discovery launch is expected to be the second to last shuttle launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Slated for a launch time of 4:40 pm EDT, shuttle mission STS-133 will supply the International Space Station (ISS) with a MultiPurpose Logistics Module (MPLM), the Express Logistics Carrier 4 (ELC4), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spaceshiptourist.com/2010/09/kennedy-space-center-space-shuttl/</link>
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		<title>Boeing Receives $1.24 Billion Extension of Space Station Contract</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boeing announced in a press release that NASA awarded the company a contract extension for sustaining engineering at the International Space Station (ISS). The extension begins October 1st and continues for five years, into 2015.
The sustaining engineering that Boeing will provide for the ISS will include software and hardware support for the U.S. segment of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spaceshiptourist.com/2010/09/boeing-international-space-station-contract/</link>
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		<title>Boeing Space Taxi for Astronauts and Space Tourists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Boeing announced that it will become a competitor in the fledgling space tourism market. 
The company is vying for a government contract that will allow it to ferry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). To do so, Boeing is building the Crew Space Transportation capsule (CST-100), which will contain more seats [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spaceshiptourist.com/2010/09/boeing-space-tourists-capsule/</link>
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		<title>Space Tourism Will Find a Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When new products and services draw the attention of the general public, they also draw the attention of venture capitalists and investors. Although buzz about the space tourism industry is steadily growing as industry leaders move closer to routine space flights, many financial experts and investors question the viability of the service. With cheap suborbital [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spaceshiptourist.com/2010/06/space-tourism-market/</link>
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		<title>Kepler Telescope Finds a Cash of Exoplanets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 15th, The Kepler team at NASA announced that the space based telescope found a veritable cash of potential exoplanets. The team released information on more than 300 of the objects, many of which could turnout to be false-positives. The expectation is that some of these would be planets will actually be, for example, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spaceshiptourist.com/2010/06/kepler-telescope-exoplanets/</link>
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		<title>Virgin Galactic Selects Its First CEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[George Whitesides has been selected as the first CEO of Virgin Galactic. Whitesides returns to the private sector after holding the position of Chief of Staff at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  Prior to becoming Chief of Staff, he served on the NASA transition team for the Obama administration.
 In reference to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spaceshiptourist.com/2010/05/virgin-galactic-selects-first-ceo/</link>
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		<title>Virgin Galactic Completes Second Test Flight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SpaceShipTwo completed its second captive test flight yesterday. The space craft was powered and pressurized from WhiteKnightTwo, the twin fuselage plan that carries SpaceShipTwo to launch altitude. The test flight was used to evaluate pressurization, avionics performance, electrical systems, approaches and post-flight cold soaked systems testing. The flight lasted 4.7 hours during which time SpaceShipTwo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spaceshiptourist.com/2010/05/virgin-galactic-completes-second-test-flight/</link>
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		<title>NASA Blasting-off Toward Hiatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted-off, heading toward the International Space Station (ISS) for what is scheduled to be the shuttle&#8217;s last flight into space. With two more shuttle launches remaining, one each by Discovery and Endeavor, I really am wondering what&#8217;s next?
Of course the Obama administration has outlined NASA&#8217;s budget and direction for the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spaceshiptourist.com/2010/05/nasa-blasting-off-toward-hiatus/</link>
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