Virgin Galactic, Branson's bet that relatively low-cost space tourism will be available--and popular--in the near future.
In both Monk Media (which builds websites for entertainment companies) and Monk Space (which rents out quality, low-cost production space for TV and Film), I routinely encounter clients, with excellent content, who struggle to make ends meet.
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Four million dollars might be a lot to spend on a holiday, but those in the nascent space tourism industry say hoteliers have been slow on the uptake because no one thought the cost of space travel would come down as quickly as it has.
That would provide a massive hundred-fold decrease in the cost of space flight.
Bezos has said he wants to lower the cost of space travel.
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SpaceX has focused on building reusable rockets (government-built rockets are one-use disposable models), with the end goal of drastically decreasing the cost of space travel.
High-tech, low-cost inflatable space stations 228 miles above sea level.
Since most of the cost of space travel is the launch, the price might come down even more if the private sector can lower the costs of getting into orbit.
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The ones that don't pay the asset Acmes for the best shelf space cost you more to buy.
Many Indian officials believe this was merely an excuse to prevent their country from becoming a low-cost competitor for space launches.
Establishing an extended human presence on the moon could vastly reduce the cost of further space exploration, making possible ever more ambitious missions.
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Among other cities that have recently experimented with new parking technologies, some, including San Francisco, have introduced dynamic pricing systems that raise and lower the cost of a space in order to control the supply of available on-street spaces.
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The desired result is a tailored solution with the ideal combination of power, space and cost.
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Despite this fall in sales, the company said more store space, cost-cutting and better stock management had enabled it to boost its profits.
Built from HP's industry-leading server intellectual property (IP) and 10 years of extensive research from HP Labs, the company's central research arm, HP Moonshot delivers a significant improvement in energy, space, cost and simplicity.
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"Organizations supporting hyperscale workloads need powerful servers to maximize efficiency and realize radical space, cost and energy savings, " said Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager, Hyperscale Business Unit, Industry-standard Servers and Software at HP.
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Thuan Phan, who spends about half the year as a sales engineer, points out that the advantage in space and cost goes to small earphones that block noise by sealing off the ear canal.
We also incorporated Economy.com's business cost index, which looks at labor, tax, energy and office space costs and its living cost index, which factors in housing, transportation, food and other household expenditures.
Reaction Engines claim the system could dramatically lower the cost of putting satellites in space.
The cost of sending humans into space is high because of the risks involved.
The space shuttle program cost more and was less safe than the Apollo missions that preceded it.
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The table to the right shows the total occupancy cost for the best office space in the central business district of 41 cities.
He may be a fan of low-budget carrier Spirit Airlines, which made headlines this spring when it announced that it was installing "pre-reclined" seats on some of its planes as a space- and cost-saving measure.
They provide 20 to 25MB of space at no cost, but they also stick their ads on each of your Web pages--acceptable if all you aim to do is show off pictures of your new kid, for instance.
Mr Cohen realised that office space was half the cost of the Bay Area.
If I'm still here in15 years' time I will have to find more burial space, but the cost of land is premium.
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