One day Orion might be able to take astronauts to space, but at the moment no one can even say how much it will cost, when it will fly, where it will fly or even on which launch vehicle.

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The stories have no one location but occupy a virtual space of a kind writers were using long before anyone had heard of the Web.

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Ridley Scott might like to say no one can hear you scream in space, but another application loaded onto the device will put that to the test by playing user-submitted shrieks and recording them with the handset's microphone as they playback.

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No-one is talking about human missions for CSG yet, but the space in the jungle is there to build the additional facilities if that option is ever taken up.

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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.

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