Google Notícias. Наука и техника. Golden Spike: NASA veterans form startup to send you to the Moon. Mars has been the hot hypothetical destination for space tourists in recent months, but a new commercial space travel company called Golden Spike wants to open up the Moon to science and tourism instead, by offering round trip tickets to the lunar surface for governments, businesses, and people with an obscene amount of money.
Fronted by NASA veterans Alan Stern and Gerry Griffin, the Golden Spike Company has announced its intention to develop and finance a system based on private space industry and commercial infrastructure that will be able to take two humans to the lunar surface (and back again). The cost for this first mission will likely be somewhere in the $7 to $8 billion range, with subsequent missions costing much less, once all of the development costs are out of the way.
Index of /wp-content/uploads/2011/01. 10 Strange Things About The Universe. Space The universe can be a very strange place.
While groundbreaking ideas such as quantum theory, relativity and even the Earth going around the Sun might be commonly accepted now, science still continues to show that the universe contains things you might find it difficult to believe, and even more difficult to get your head around. Theoretically, the lowest temperature that can be achieved is absolute zero, exactly ? 273.15°C, where the motion of all particles stops completely.