GAVIN ASTRELLA AND JOSEPH RAMALHO

Space Exploration
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527131/intergalactic-entrepreneursprepare-for-blast-off/
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/508346/two-tickets-to-the-moon-yoursfor-just-15-billion/

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(A model of an XCOR space Traveler)

How the artiles compare to each other

Gavin Astrella and Joseph Ramalho

These two articles relate to each other in a great way. They both talk about how people
are going to be launched into space in some way. Many wealthy people may pay a pretty
penny to go up into space. This costs 1.5 billion per person. Also, many entrepreneurs
want to go up into space. Both of these articles talk about space in a very positive way,
and compare with each other greatly.

http://logonoid.com/virgin-galactic-logo/
(The logo of company Virgin Galactic)
Both of these Articles are related in the topic of possibilities of future Space
Exploration
Notes
By: Joseph Ramalho

In the article Intergalactic Entrepreneurs, The idea is proposed of Space travel for
leisure purposes. Companies like Virgin Galactic and XCOR hope to create big business
out of this new, booming industry. Companies like Blue Origin intend on joining this
commercial space race but are taking a more secretive approach and reveal little
information on progress.
In the article Two Tickets to the Moon Yours Just for 1.5 Billion Dollars, a
startup company named Golden Spike has high expectations and anticipations for the
future as they plan to have commercial trips to the moon. available by the year 2020. This
company has somewhat designated these flights to Upper Class citizens and the one
percent of the population, as expected for 1.5 Billion dollars is far off from the average
salary of the the average earth inhabitant.
Notes
By: Gavin Astrella
Intergalactic Entrepreneurs Prepare for blast-off
On the date of May 1st, 13 commercial space companies decided that they were
going to space. This meeting took place at the Explorers club in New York. There was a
190 billion dollar satellite launch that offered cheaper prices for the rides into space. As
of now, no more than 700 people put down a down payment of 200,00 to 250,00
dollars. Also, they were thinking of making a balloon flights up to the edge of space for
75,000 dollars. The plane into space would cost 150 million dollars per seat, and would
launch in the year of 2017 or 2018. This is a great idea, but who would pay this kind of
money. A view that would last forever, but a whole in your pocket that would never get
fixed.

Two tickets to the moon: yours for just $1.5 billion dollars
President Kennedy once said that we would be able to go to the moon. According to the
article, eight years later we succeeded this task. In the year of 2020, we will fly into
space. They believe that we will once put a man on an asteroid and then mars. This
company would like to build upon NASAs success.

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