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“You don’t choose your passions, your passions choose you.” So begins Jeff Bezos, then the world’s richest man. It is Thursday, 9 May 2019 and he is on stage in front of a dimly lit audience, somewhat reminiscent of Apple’s famous keynote events. He will present his long-term vision not only for the future of some of his business interests, but for all of humanity, spanning hundreds of years into the future, and defining millennia after that. It is a dream he has held on to for decades longer than the past two spent building Blue Origin, the aerospace manufacturer and suborbital spaceflight company he founded in 2000.
Re-entry of the space junk is expected Saturday within an 18-hour window
The re-entry prediction for the Long March 5B rocket body from The Aerospace Corp.‘s Center for Orbital and Re-entry Debris Studies from earlier this week. The ground traces shown in the above image extend the full uncertainty window for re-entry with predictions expected to improve as re-entry draws closer. (The Aerospace Corp. photo) By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
May 7, 2021
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Some Vandenberg Air Force Base members have been keeping a close eye on out-of-control debris from a Chinese rocket as they calculate as close as possible when and where the space junk might land.
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Things are moving faster than you think
It s been only a little more than a decade since the first SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral (and Jacobson was there to witness it!) and a little less than a decade since SpaceX ran its first resupply mission to the International Space Station. In that time SpaceX one of the first promising space start-ups spotted by Jacobson and his crew has grown into a bona fide space company and a worthy rival to incumbent U.S. space contractor United Launch Alliance.
As fast as this change has happened already, you may be shocked to learn how much more things may change if the space industry has just a little more time to develop. In all of recorded history, for example, fewer than 600 humans have ever left Earth s atmosphere, says Jacobson. But by 2050, it s possible we could begin to see first hundreds, then thousands, and eventually hundreds of thousands of people not just visiting space, but
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