The Space Fellowship reported a few weeks ago that the next manned mission will be in October, 2008.
It’ll be China’s third manned mission, and it will carry three people into space. Also up on the checklist: a spacewalk.
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Gaming to combat poverty?
Blogger White African talks about a new concept of gaming that’s oriented at solving issues in the third world. By playing to find solutions for problems facing real world villagers many ideas and approaches might filter out the best practices. A unique idea, as long as the game is open enough to let some really original thinking into it. As White African also points out.
Next ISS space tourist announced
Space Adventures announces that Richard Garriott will be the next private citizen to travel to space as a tourist.
Garriott’s father was a NASA astronaut, so that makes it a unique flight. Son pays to fly up, dad was part of a giant government project to fly up.
The flight is October 2008, and Garriott already has a website set up where he’ll be chronicling the whole thing.
Military and eco-technology
Earth 2 Tech has a list of ways the military is using eco-technology. It includes solar power tents, aviation bio-fuel, micro fuel cells, hybrid drive technologies, and personal solar cells for recharging in the field.
There is a great deal of money in the military, and often research and innovation comes out of the military side that trickles down to civilians (night vision, Hummers, etc). It would be intriguing if green technologies are invented in the military industry have an effect on daily life. So far, however, most of these innovations look like they’re being taken from civilian industries and being tested in military arenas.
Now all we need is a eco-DARPA and we might see some very interesting results!