For me the space trip was more about that passion of traveling than of going to space.
And on his second trip into space at age 77, he defied the odds once again.
This flight marks Hadfield's third trip to space, and second visit to the International Space Station.
An earlier X Prize resulted in the first nongovernment human trip into space.
Yurchikhin, 54, is a veteran of three previous spaceflights, while the 36-year-old Parmitano, a former test pilot, is making his first trip into space.
The US shuttle Atlantis and its six crewmen are heading back to Earth, wrapping up the craft's 32nd - and probably final - trip into space.
Alec Meer, a writer at games news site Rock Paper Shotgun, expressed surprise that Mr Garriott had to appeal for funds via Kickstarter given that in 2009 he spent millions of dollars to take a trip into space.
Astronauts would then travel to the asteroid where "there could be mining activities, research into ways of deflecting an asteroid from striking Earth and testing to develop technology for a trip to deep space and Mars, " it said.
The exhibition of jewelry and other objects that were either inspired by the skies above, made the trip to outer space, created out of materials that originated from heavenly bodies, or built from materials that were created during the space race is now open to the public and will run till September 7 at Forbes Galleries, 60 Fifth Avenue, New York.
On March 1, the SpaceX Dragon capsule will launch on its third trip to the International Space Station.
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Commercial satellite Internet has been available for a number of years, but it is slow, capacity limited, and the trip to and from space adds a noticeable delay that can disrupt some applications.
Bridas sued the California oil giant for stealing its idea. (Bridas lost.) Unocal mixed it up with tyrants, too, flying a delegation of Taliban officials to its engineering headquarters in Houston, with a side trip to the NASA Space Center.
Alan Shepard's trip on Freedom 7 into space only three weeks before was no real space voyage.
The trip angered NASA, the primary space station partner, which argued that Tito's presence could endanger the station crew.
The current space mission is Chris Hadfield's third trip into orbit.
The Pittsburg State number 4 team, winner in the college division, will receive a trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to view a Space Shuttle launch.
"I'm not on some ego trip to enjoy the greatest number of space flights, " he told CNN.
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These habitats, which are folded up for launch and then inflated in space, were designed as interplanetary vehicles for a trip to Mars, but they are also likely to be useful general-purpose accommodation.
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Chris Moore, NASA's deputy director for advanced exploration systems, said the space agency is working on engines aimed at cutting the trip time by the 2030s, when it hopes to send humans to Mars.
Bill Gates in his private jet flies with more personal space than does Joe Six-Pack when making a similar trip on a commercial jetliner.
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He wrote "Sputnik, " a song about a trip he and his girl would take together in outer space.
Last September, in a sign of tentative warming between the two sides, Michael Griffin of NASA paid the first trip to China by a head of the American government's space agency.
He sees his trip as just the latest step forward in the emerging industry of private space tourism.
But the tone was far different in Iran, where officials characterized the monkey's reportedly successful trip high into the sky and back as a major step forward in its space program.
That is about half what Russia charges for a trip to the international station, a price that is likely to go up after the space shuttle retires later this year.
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