C-Max is about 300 pounds heavier than Prius v despite a smaller footprint, and has about the same amount of passenger space though a bit less cargo room.
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Then, providing they can reduce space launch costs by a large factor, they may be able to exploit new business opportunities, including passenger traffic to outer space.
According a joint press release, the two companies agreed that SpaceX will provide passenger transportation to private space stations to be built by Bigelow.
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Of course the price per passenger is higher if the space is used by fewer than three people.
Once a passenger has disembarked from their space vehicle, there are much greater uncertainties that complicate medical decision making, Kirkpatrick said.
But horizontal beds take up more space since one passenger can't angle under another, and airlines end up with fewer premium seats to sell.
So that step will reduce the number of flight attendants from four to three, yet allow the airline to provide more seating space for each passenger.
He noted that while a 160-kilogram person on Samoa Air will pay four times as much as a 40 kilogram person, the airline would ensure more space for the bigger passenger.
Despite its appealingly decadent service (each passenger enjoys 21 square feet of space and can arrive at the terminal just 45 minutes before departure rather than the usual three hours for an international flight), Eos still suffers from a relatively low profile among affluent customers.
Placing the batteries in the floor of the vehicle provides optimum weight distribution to help enhance handling and allows for five-passenger seating by not intruding into the cabin space.
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The agency would start regulating space vehicles to ensure crew and passenger safety only if the operation of those vehicles resulted in death, serious injury or a dangerous close call.
Whilst much of the attention surrounding scramjets has focussed on the shorter journey times they could bring to long-haul passenger air travel, the first applications are likely to be in the space delivery business - launching small payloads, such as communications satellites, into orbit.
If the passenger doesn't show up, the driver, who could have rented the space to someone else, loses out.
The space shuttle was originally conceived as it is shown in the film: a passenger vehicle.
The Genesis has more living space than the Acura (109.4 vs. 102.1 cubic feet of EPA passenger volume), to start.
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The offshoot of billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways in December unveiled the first commercial passenger spaceship, a sleek black-and-white vessel that represents an expensive gamble on creating a commercial space tourism industry.
This October, Richard Garriott, a computer-game developer and son of former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, is scheduled to become Space Adventures' sixth client to leave the planet followed by a seventh yet-to-be identified passenger next April.
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