More broadly, the fact that any company can demand protection for the basic shape of a device, years before it had invented the actual device or technology, should not entitle that company to claim that it had patented the design for a smartphone any more than Richard Branson can patent business class travel in outer space.
Einstein's theory holds that matter and energy distort space, and massive bodies such as planets and stars travel in this warped space.
"We've got just short of 500 people now signed up to go, which is actually more people than have been up to space in the history of space travel, and we hope to put those up in our first year of operation, " he says, predicting the first commercial flight by "about next Christmas, " although he acknowledges that there have been many delays.
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Sometimes, these private initiatives will work in cooperation with the government organizations that funded and conducted space travel in the first three eras, and sometimes they will operate independently of government involvement and support.
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Purveyors of highly sought after luxury fashion and jewelry products and even those in the travel and hospitality space have tweaked their search buys in recent months to make the most of the royal wedding related Internet search frenzy, Google says.
If all goes according to plan, the Shenzhou IX space craft should be re-connected manually to Tiangong by Sunday morning, marking a giant leap for Chinese space travel and the first stages in a permanent space station within the next 8 years.
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Here's a way: Commit America to big, gaudy, public contests in space travel and energy.
Space travel in general is a challenge, regardless of whether it is done by government or private industry.
Because space travel in the '60s did really represented a projection of this vision of America, and we don't see that anymore.
When Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin traveled to outer space, he opened up a whole new age in space travel and exploration for the rest of the world.
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Ms. Giffords brought her interest in space travel to Congress.
"It's a revolution, " he says of private space industry, adding that in the not-so-distant future, space travel could allow for a trans-Atlantic flight in under 20 minutes.
The key to future space travel lies in biotechnology, not propulsion technology, say experts who have suggested GM trees could grow their own greenhouses on Mars.
If online travel agencies fail to keep up with innovation in this space, they face the risk of losing out a growing user base of online travel bookings via mobile devices.
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That works out well for space travel, given that older people have less time left in their lives for space radiation to potentially cause cancer, Kring said.
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And, also like fuel cells, that initial application may now be found in the specialised needs of space travel.
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We know that the general theory of relativity is compatible with the existence of space-times in which travel to the past or remote future is possible.
Shuttleworth's dream of space travel gained momentum last year when California equity fund manager Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space.
President Ahmadinejad made his space-travel offer during an address to scientists on Iran's national day of space technology in Tehran, state media report.
But I am thinking more in the long term, particularly in regard to large-scale space travel, colonization and commerce.
That single prize (which didn't come close to covering the team's expenses) ushered in a new era of private space travel and, for XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis, demonstrated the power of competition.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, space travel led to the next phase of human evolution.
Blue Origin has received millions of dollars in NASA funding to develop its commercial space travel program, including a launch escape system.
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However, Google has the majority market share in internet searches and its foray into the travel space might lead to its dedicated user base switching over from competing sites such as Kayak.
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.
Manned space travel has been one of the greatest triumphs in the history of the United States.
This list is a variety of experiences and destinations by theme for every taste, and each is the best in its class, from awesome skiing to space travel.
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Travel, or moving objects from one set of coordinates in our physical space, is difficult and expensive.
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The utterly mundane idea in the video is that we will be doing retail space travel to the moon.
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