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Project purple: IAG moves away from being an analogue business
"An insurance company not selling insurance is quite disruptive because a lot of the core systems is under insurance, so if we want to sell a solution that provides emergency assistance to your home that is not an insurance product, how would you bill someone for that so that it's not under insurance … there are a range of things we need to transform and add new capabilities to." … [Read more...] about Project purple: IAG moves away from being an analogue business
Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS
Space tourism in recent years has sparked a wave of interest from the ultra-wealthy and investors as a growing field of space companies prove out hardware and ramp up uncrewed test flights in and around space. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, now the richest person in the world, has made normalizing space travel and colonizing Mars SpaceX’s top priority. Billionaire businessman Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which offers groups of four a few minutes of weightlessness in its massive spaceplane for a few hundred thousand dollars, became the first publicly traded space tourism company in 2019. And billionaire Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’ space firm Blue Origin will soon offer similar suborbital experiences with its vertically launched New Shepard rocket. … [Read more...] about Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS
What we can learn about SpaceX’s trip to the Moon from the Apollo 8 mission
The Apollo 8 mission helped NASA prepare for landing on the Moon. SpaceX will face some similar challenges on its lunar mission. Like Apollo 8, Elon Musk’s customers won’t be able to return to Earth in the event that something goes wrong; they’ll be on their own for the mission, which is expected to last a week. That includes illness — one of the Apollo 8 astronauts got sick during the mission, for instance. And the mission will be a test of SpaceX’s craft: it must perform precise maneuvers in order to reach the Moon and return. This is far more complicated than the trips to the ISS SpaceX routinely takes. To understand a little bit more about the SpaceX mission, it might be helpful to know your Apollo 8 history. … [Read more...] about What we can learn about SpaceX’s trip to the Moon from the Apollo 8 mission
SpaceX’s Moon flight will be the first truly private ticket to space
Of course, Elon Musk didn’t invent space tourism, and he isn’t proposing anything that’s beyond its current capabilities. Since 2001, a Virginia company called Space Adventures has offered multimillionaires the opportunity to hitch a ride on a Russian flight to the space station, ferrying seven people to the International Space Station over the course of eight years. It’s not clear Musk’s proposed Moon tour is beyond Space Adventure’s capabilities. The company is currently advertising translunar trips, but no one’s taken them up on it yet. … [Read more...] about SpaceX’s Moon flight will be the first truly private ticket to space
