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		<title>XCor Lynx Has Successful Hydrogen Piston Firing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[XCOR Aerospace and United Launch Alliance have demonstrated successful piston pump tests. The piston pumps use cryogenic hydrogen (liquid H2) for high performance long life launch ambitions for their suborbital rocket the XCor Lynx.
The piston pumps being developed by the two companies can operate over a wide range of speeds and conditions. Rapid prototyping techniques [...]]]></description>
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		<title>60 Mile High Club and Sex in Space</title>
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Now, I’ve already talked once about sex in space requests pouring into various space tourism companies, but now it is time to expand on the subject a bit. Now, the question is should a spaceplane, rocket ship for space tourists or even the International Space Station have a compartment for copulating couples? Even prisoners get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.space-tourism.ws/blog/index.php/space-tourists/60-mile-high-club-and-sex-in-space/</link>
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		<title>Space Tourism Travel Agent Gets Ready for Bookings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, what would space tourism be without space travel agents? I had previously talked about one of Virgin Galactic’s first space travel agents Carolyn Wincer back in January 2008.
Now, I decided to have a conversation with Beverly Rother an accredited space travel agent also for Virgin Galactic who is based in Miami, Florida for an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.space-tourism.ws/blog/index.php/space-tourism-travel-agents/space-tourism-agent-gets-ready-for-bookings/</link>
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		<title>Cecil Field Spaceport in Jacksonville, FL Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil Field Airport in Jacksonville, Florida will be doing double duty as a spaceport as well. Florida Governor Charlie Crist along with Jacksonville Aviation Authority leaders made the announcement about the licensing of the property to do horizontal launches of spacecraft.
The process of obtaining the proper licensing and permits took 4 yeas. The Cecil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VSS Enterprise Makes Official Debut in Mojave California Desert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the VSS enterprise made its official debut in the Mojave Desert of California. Dignitaries such as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson were there to christen the aircraft.
Also on hand were Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic and Burt Rutan of Scaled Somposites. Scaled Composites is the company who built the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.space-tourism.ws/blog/index.php/space-tourism/vss-enterprise-makes-official-debut-in-mojave-california-desert/</link>
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		<title>Take a Free Ride to Mars &#8211; Really</title>
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No this isn’t the movie, Total Recall where then actor and not governor Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in a plot where he ended up on the red planet. This is legit- well sort of – chance to go to Mars.
Last month, the U. S. celebrated the 40th anniversary of the moon landing in grand style. National [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.space-tourism.ws/blog/index.php/news/take-a-free-ride-to-mars-really/</link>
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		<title>Richard Garriott Returns Safely from the ISS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Space Tourist Richard Garriott has returned safely from space and the International Space Station (ISS) after a 10 day visit. Gariott is the 6th official space tourist of record.
Richard Gariott is the first 2nd generation astronaut as he is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Gariott. On October 12, 2008 Richard Gariott launched aboard a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.space-tourism.ws/blog/index.php/space-tourists/richard-garriott-returns-safely-from-the-iss/</link>
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		<title>China Walked in Space &#8211; Did Anybody Notice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chinese astronauts walked in space for the first time this past weekend. But did anyone notice? Noticeably absent was reporting from the mainstream media. There has been no Larry King special, no hoopla, just yawns for only the third nation in history to take a step out of the blue and into the black.
Zhai Zhigang, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.space-tourism.ws/blog/index.php/news/china-walked-in-space-did-anybody-notice/</link>
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		<title>Mirror Energy May Propel Next Generation Spacecraft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone by now has heard of the hydrogen economy and rocket ships powered by liquid nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen. But, one company is proposing a new next generation method of propulsion called “mirror energy”.
This mirror energy or mirror power as they sometimes call it is based upon anti-matter. Energy USA theorizes that one day spacecraft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.space-tourism.ws/blog/index.php/space-technology/mirror-energy-may-propel-next-generation-spacecraft/</link>
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		<title>Sex in Space Requests Pour into Virgin Galactic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Richard Branson, the head of the Virgin Galactic space tourism company has now received many requests from curious couples who want to be the first in history to have sex in space. Virgin expects to put the first tourists into space as early as 2009.
Some couples are wanting to make it into the Guinness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.space-tourism.ws/blog/index.php/space-tourists/sex-in-space-requests-pour-into-virgin-galactic/</link>
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