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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Dateline April 19, 2006, Space News from the Internet

  • NASA has opened registration for five Centennial Challenge Competitions. They are:

    • Astronaut Glove Challenge, administered by Volanz Aerospace/Spaceflight America with a total prize value of $250,000.
    • Beam Power Challenge, administered by the Spaceward Foundation as part of the annual Space Elevator Games with a total prize value of $200,000.
    • Lunar Regolith Excavation Challenge, administered by the California Space Education & Workforce Institute with a total prize value of $250,000.
    • MoonROx (Moon Regolith Oxygen) Challenge, administered by the Florida Space Research Institute with a total prize value of $250,000.
    • Tether Challenge, administered by the Spaceward Foundation as part of the annual Space Elevator Games with a total prize value of $200,000.

    See the NASA Centennial Challenges web site for more information. Alan Boyle also has this story.
  • NASA has given ATK Thiokol $28.6 million to continue development of the first stage of the CLV. This contract goes through September 30, 2006, then end of FY06.
  • Eri Matsui, of Japan, has designed a wedding dress for zero-g. There is now a competition in JAXA to design a wedding dress for space.
  • SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc (SEI) is conducting space tourism surveys. Go take it, have fun.
  • Apparently, California doesn't want space tourism in their state. State funding for improvements at Mojave spaceport was killed in a senate committee session.




Eri Matsui's Wedding dress in Earth Gravity & Zero-G

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