SPACE TRAVEL

SPACE TRAVEL

By: Maddie MadisonPrd.6

WWK how technology has and will effect space travel.

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NASA is working on having people visit the moon, mars, and beyond by 2020.

Future moon visits will include robotic reconnaissance launches, between 2008 and 2012.

NASA is working on a new spacecraft. Richard Branson, originator of Virgin Group is holding trips

to space costing $200,000 per ticket taking about 45 people per flight.

The first space hotel is to open in 2012. People will soon be able to live in space in houses at the space

station.

New beacons have allowed us to pinpoint satellites and planets.

During the past 40 years, space shuttle’s appearance has changed. They are more “luxurious” than how they used

to be.

VASMIR is working on a machine that will draw electrical power from the space station’s solar planets.

First man made spacecraft was Sputnik 1, built October 4, 1957.