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| News on space transport and the entrepreneurial space industry ... |
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 --- 94 days ago http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/?itemid=6191
| The future of the N.M. spaceport comes down to a handful of people, many of whom are retirees on fixed incomes, choosing during an economic slowdown whether or not to raise their own taxes. Seems unlikely to pass but maybe efforts to convince 51% to support it has worked :
/-- Today's big election (and it's not in Pennsylvania) - Space Politics
/-- Spaceport tax divides voters/msnbc.com - Apr.21.08
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I saw this earlier and a reader pointed to it but the money involved is uninspiring, to say the least: Whimsical 'N-prize' to spur ultra-cheap space launches - New Scientist Space Blog - Apr.21.08 .
There are in a fact some serious efforts to develop low cost launchers for very small payloads, e.g. this project . It would be nice if there was some serious prize money offered to encourage them.
[Update: Charles Pooley tells me that his Microlaunchers project is "still alive, and there may be new developments to report soon".]
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More about the Soyuz return problem and the implications:
/-- Space crews hard landing raises hard questions: Rough ride may point to quality-control problems in Russia - by James Oberg - MSNBC - Apr.21.08
/-- Station crew OK after Soyuz capsule lands short of target - Spaceflight Now - Apr.19.08
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