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So where are the extraterrestrial beings?
Not so very long ago, astronomers were theorising about life on practically every planet in the solar system whereas today the Earth is sometimes envisaged as the only haven for living beings... have the extraterrestrial beings disappeared in-between times?
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The rapid growth of New Space
For several years, entrepreneurs have been aspiring to develop a new approach to the space industry and targeting a reduction in launch costs. Is the private sector going to revolutionise human space flight?
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Avatar’s Venture Star
The spaceship from James Cameron’s film is far less fanciful than it appears and even plausibly deals with several problems posed by interstellar travel.
The Big Jump on French TV news
The Big Jump (Le Grand Saut) is a project which is to enable parachutist Michel Fournier to simultaneously beat 4 records by jumping from a nacelle carried by a balloon to an altitude of 40 km: altitude record for freefall, altitude record for human balloon flight, time record for longest freefall and speed record for fastest freefall. This feat is guided by French astronaut, Jean-François Clervoy. The 13:00 television news, on French television channel France 2, is to report on this project tomorrow, Friday 5 February.
The official website of The Big Jump
Published on 4 February 2010
