Space Flight Will Become Commercial

Falcon 9

In the near future or this month, SpaceX is going to take their first private space flight. SpaceX is a company other than NASA that wants to go to space, however, SpaceX differently. This flight will be the dawn of commercial trips to space. This article was published for us to be informed about the new era that will be born after Dragon docks on the ISS (International Space Station). This event will take place on the 22nd of May 2012, and this will take place at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. This event would have taken place on the 18nth, but Falcon 9 was having technical difficulties. It is time for more people to go to space for experience, not work.

Dragon

I think this will create a new space race to the ISS. The only downside is that many people will want to go when production of rockets is long. SpaceX will have a large profit because of that status. People will want to go also because they might want the experience of going to space or zero-gravity. To add on, more people can get interested and start trying out to work for NASA. This idea and event will benefit everything and will be a great news story.


http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-05/dawn-commercial-space-age-probably-happening-weekend

The Jets of the Future

Lockheed Martin Supersonic Green
Machine

This article from Popular Science magazine is about planes that will create quieter transportation, more fuel efficiency and greener fuels. To be specific, the Lockheed Martin Box Wing Jet, the Lockheed Martin Supersonic Green Machine, and finally, the Boeing Sugar Volt.  The article was made to give us an idea of what new types of planes we will encounter in the near future and how they are going to be better environmentally. These new prototypes are going to be made at factories of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. This amazing event is going to occur over the next 10-15 years for the planes to be official. This is going to occur because aviation makes the air polluted with harmful gases and we need more clean planes and ones that go fast like the Concorde. We need to make the world a better place.

Lockheed Martin Box Wing Jet

Boeing Sugar Volt

I feel that these planes will eventually make a difference and will help the atmosphere and lower the affects of global warming. They are going to be running on fuels that will help the environment and passengers get to places quicker. Also more of the energy left can be used to fuel a lot of other planes because there could be an excess. More people will also become more interested into planes and there functions and place in life. Transportation will be changed forever.


http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-04/jets-future
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-04/inside-first-production-ready-electric-airplane