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Commercial space travel will definitely be available by the end of the decade and hopefully a couple of years before that. Virgin Galactic 's business plan is aiming for commercial sub-orbital flights to start during 2008. Bearing in mind that the SpaceShipOne prototype has flown successfully and that funding and infrastructure is already in place, this time frame looks realistic, although ...

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''This article is condensed from a paper, given at the Commonwealth Spaceflight Symposium in London in August 1959 by Geoffrey Pardoe Mr. G. K. C. Pardoe , Chief Co-ordinator (Ballistic Missiles), de Havilland Propellers Limited.'' Introduction THE intention of the British Government to participate in space flight to some degree became evident at the time of the Government ...

... followed them out there. I didn’t start with them; I started with G.E. General Electric Company . They were developing a radar, airborne radar system, fire control system for the CF ... was a little spinoff. One of the guys who worked at G.E., General Electric Company, Canadian electric company, of Canadian General Electric, was a kind of an entrepreneur, and he wanted to become a ... ’m sure you’ve got all the background records on that. But because of that general attitude, when the Instrumentation Support Division, along with Bendix, were getting involved in designing the ...

... was a guy named Jake Mosher phonetic , worked for G. Merritt Preston, and they hired General Electric, and they went with these computers, and, by janes, they worked on it and worked ... Grumman was supplying the airplanes for the war, and my home town had the biggest General Motors manufacturing plant in the country. It was the Linden phonetic Division of Chevrolet, Pontiac ... men.” So he sent me a young fellow named Dave Anderson from General Electric, and he sent me about eighteen General Electric engineers. We put in a fax machine and we put in extra ...

... Northeastern University in Boston, and interviewed with a number of aerospace companies. IBM and GE General Electric were not, but Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. and Curtiss-Wright were. Also, just by accident ... was some of his key people. '''Rusnak:''' Tec Tecwyn Roberts is a name that’s generally associated with the design and construction of the control center. I was wondering if you ...

... fly this manned vehicle by 1960, I think it was, somewhere around that time period, General Electric I remember saying that, “You’re about three or four years off. You’re too ... from Caldwell. But we had three study contracts on the Apollo. General Electric had one, and Martin Company had one, and Convair, General Dynamics, had one. We would do what was called the red-eye express. I remember we would get on the airplane and fly up to Valley Forge Pennsylvania for General Electric, leave ...

... O. Paine , NASA Administrator, Elmer B. Staats, U.S. Comptroller General, recommended that award of ATSF and ATS-G contract to General Electric Co. be reconsidered be cause of ambiguity in NASA's ... Hiller and General Electric in strict accordance with our procurement regulations." ''(CR, 7/9/70, S10975-7; NASA Release 70-119; Text)'' Daniel J. Fink, Vice President and General Manager of General Electric Co. Space ...

... was never given the overall responsibility, but one guidance contractor, AC Spark—AC division of General Motors, did eventually fold in Raytheon (Company), who did the computer, and whoever did the ... meant we bought millions of dollars worth of analog computer equipment and developed, with GE General Electric Company and some others, all these sophisticated—what do they call it nowadays? Reality—you ...

... Blackout Working Group - ACE acceptance checkout equipment; also automatic checkout equipment - ACED AC Electronics Division, General Motors Corporation - ACQ Acquisition - ACRIM Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor - ADEOS Advanced Earth Orbiting Satellite ... - GDA Gimbal Drive Actuator - GDC Gyro Display Coupler - GDO Guidance Dynamics Officer - GE General Electric - GE General Electric Company - GE General Electric Company - GET Ground-Elapsed Time - GETI Ground-Elapsed Time of Ignition - GEWEX Global Energy ...

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