Comments on: Space tourism developments in Canada and India http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Personal Spaceflight » Indian space tourism contest ready for launch http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/comment-page-1/#comment-224584 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:54:19 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/#comment-224584 […] in July I noted here that a new Indian TV channel was planning a contest with a suborbital spaceflight as the top prize. Indiantelevision.com reports that the televised portion of this contest is ready to begin, with […]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/comment-page-1/#comment-179900 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:44:47 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/#comment-179900 Space tourism developments in Canada and India…

A roundup of recent international space developments, including a Canadian space tourist and a suborbital tourism contest in India….

]]> By: Thomas Matula http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/comment-page-1/#comment-179880 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:46:11 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/#comment-179880 Sorry, the URL didn’t wrap, but its a report in the OK News based on athe current state of Rocketplane.

]]> By: Thomas Matula http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/comment-page-1/#comment-179879 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:44:09 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/#comment-179879 Perhaps they hope if they hype it enough, and sell enough contest rides, investors will come. But they are having “hard times” since they won COTS.

http://www.okgazette.com/p/12776/a/726/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=LwBEAGUAZgBhAHUAbAB0AC4AYQBzAHAAeAAslashAHAAPQAxADIANwAyADkA

According to this XP is down to a single employee, pending more funding.

]]> By: Rhubarb Ansley III http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/comment-page-1/#comment-179767 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:18:44 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/#comment-179767 What’s with all the contests selling XP rides? It’s questionable whether it will ever even get built, let alone flown. Those Rocketplane guys should be ashamed of themselves, their marketing reach has way exceeded their physical grasp.

]]> By: Peter Shearer http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/comment-page-1/#comment-179738 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:06:38 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/07/19/space-tourism-developments-in-canada-and-india/#comment-179738 According to Dictionary.com

Main Entry: bindaas
Part of Speech: adj
Definition: admirably bold and independent
Example: talkative and bindaas babe
Etymology: 1993; India
Usage: colloquial

…As found in Webster’s New Millennium Dictonary of English.

So I think that what they’re saying is ““The idea of presenting the youth with a chance to travel into space is a truly, admirably bold and independent thing to do.”

Unfortunately, according to Urbandictionary.com the definition is…

1. bindass
– binding of ones arse when you need to fart…or exhale thru ur rear

I really hope the first one is the accurate one!!! These aren’t methane rockets after all!

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