Monday, 8 August, 2022
TopicSpace tourism

Topic: space tourism

Rockets emit 100x more CO₂ per passenger than flights – imagine a space tourism industry

Eloise Marais -
Virgin Galactic anticipates it will offer 400 spaceflights each year to the privileged few who can afford them. Blue Origin and SpaceX have yet to announce their plans.

Bezos, Branson & Musk — Are billionaires popularising space travel or just on an ego trip?

ThePrint Team -
Jeff Bezos will travel to the edge of space in his New Shepard aircraft — more than a week after billionaire Richard Branson defeated him in a fast developing space race.

Branson made it to space, and Bezos will follow suit. But honestly, no one really cares

Raghav Bikhchandani -
The space race appears to be more about ego than scientific advancement. Look at how Branson 'preponed' his trip before Bezos.

NASA is facing its first space crime — so, what happens if you commit a crime in space?

Danielle Ireland-Piper -
Earth’s atmosphere does not have a solid boundary, which makes it hard to determine whether air law or space law should apply at a given altitude.

Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space after 41 years

Sandhya Ramesh -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

Massive corruption expose in Maldives and China’s latest tariffs on US goods

Anagha Deshpande -
China accuses Taiwan of recruiting university students as spies and the horror at a Kenyan hospital.

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Opinion

Opposition leaders protest outside Parliament | Representative image | ANI

Confused, aimless—why Opposition parties live up to Ronen Sen’s ‘headless chicken’ remark

D.K. Singh -
From ‘compromising national security’ to 'playing havoc' with institutions, the Opposition continues to attack Modi while failing to reflect on own actions.
Illustration by Manisha Yadav | ThePrint

After Mammootty and Mohanlal, who? Fahadh Faasil is the new poster boy of Malayalam cinema

US Special Forces and NATO troops in Afghanistan | Representational image | Commons

US interests in Af-Pak now just ‘transactional’. People can fight their own battles

Economy

A suspension pylon in Tamil Nadu | Commons

You thought power subsidy is a Delhi-Punjab problem? Check out Tamil Nadu’s power sector mess

Nikhil Rampal -
RBI data shows Indian discoms owe power generation firms over Rs 4.5 lakh crore, almost a third of which is owed by Tamil Nadu, where power subsidy cost is twice that of food subsidy.

Defence

The Flying Dolphin — how a former Indian Navy submariner qualified as a commercial pilot 

Suchet Vir Singh -
Vivek Chaudhary retired from the Indian Navy in 2017 after serving on the  Short-Service Commission. After that, his dreams took flight. 

National Interest

In Kashmir 3 years on, 3 positive changes, 3 things that should’ve happened & 3 that got worse

Shekhar Gupta -
Kashmir as a crisis has fallen off our headlines and from the top of our collective minds. Which is precisely the most important change for the better.

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