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An 18-year-old is about to become the youngest person in space, rocketing away with an aviation pioneer who will become the oldest at age 82.

Blue Origin announced Thursday that instead of a $28 million auction winner launching with founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday, the Dutch son of another bidder will be on board. The company said Oliver Daemen will be the first paying customer, but did not disclose the price of his ticket. A family spokesperson said it will be considerably less than the winning bid.

Daemen snagged the fourth and last seat on the space capsule after the auction winner stepped aside because of a scheduling conflict. The offer came in a surprise phone call from Blue Origin last week, he said.

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Circa 2012 One day ice from could be transformed to metal the be transported anywhere even into space.

Researchers have combined high-powered computing and ‘chemical intuition’ to discover new phases of ice at extremely high pressures nonexistent on Earth, but probably abundant elsewhere in the solar system. (Jan. 16, 2012)

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has officially approved Jeff Bezos Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston BezosFAA approves Blue Origin launch with Bezos, others aboard Richard Branson’s launch changes the way we look at space Branson, Bezos and Musk: A new space race for a new generation MORE ’s highly anticipated spaceflight next week aboard a rocket developed by his aerospace company, Blue Origin.

The license, which was approved by the FAA on Monday and is valid through August, comes as Bezos, along with his brother and two others, are scheduled to launch into space next Tuesday on the New Shepard rocket.

The flight is part of an effort by billionaire-owned technology and transportation companies to make space flight a commercially available experience.

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After Sir Richard Branson’s spaceflight this weekend, the leader of Russia’s main space corporation, Roscosmos, offered some kind words about the achievement on Twitter. Dmitry Rogozin called the flight a “landmark” in terms of technology development and expanding the number of humans able to see Earth from space.

Then Rogozin went a step further, lamenting the fact that Russia’s “billionaire oligarchs” spend their money on yachts and vanity projects rather than the development of space technology and increasing humanity’s knowledge of space.

This is a notable comment from Rogozin, who in the past has been critical of one particular billionaire spending his money developing space technology: SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Among other remarks, Rogozin has said that NASA should not get too cocky about its newfound access to space in case SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicle “breaks.” He has also said that SpaceX is “gentle” for getting to work in the balmy conditions of South Texas, while Russian engineers and technicians work in the depths of Siberia during the winter.

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Join the SRIC3 final event big party!

Here’s where you can find the Zoom coordinates to join us celebrating the 2021 Space Renaissance Congress completed:

Though the voting process will remain open until Thursday July 15th, i am happy to announce that **we have elected the new President of Space Renaissance International, Prof. Bernard Foing, and the new Board of Directors!**

Hereafter the received votes so far, that assure we passed the quorum, and the election of our new leadership.

63, 77% of the having right to vote voted so far on the 3 final motions, namely:

Final Resolution: AYE 97, 73%, NAY 0%, ABS 2.27%

Thesis 1 Motion: AYE 93, 18%, NAY 0%, ABS 6.82%

Thesis 2 Motion: AYE 93, 18%, NAY 0%, ABS 6.82%

57, 97% of the having right to vote voted so far on the new President and Board of Directors, namely:

The new President: AYE 95, 00%, NAY 0%, ABS 5.00%

The new Board of Directors: AYE 92, 50%, NAY 0%, ABS 7.50%

Consider that the voting on the new President and Board is open only since 4 days, while the voting on the final motions is open since almost two weeks.

Now, for our Congress final event, we are opening the Zoom meeting to all of the friends who will like to be with us, celebrating this great achievement of our association.

In the same time we will celebrate the very exciting time we are living: the extraordinary success of Space X on the roadmap of the first fully reusable orbital vehicle testing, the historic first flight of Virgin Galactic VSS Unit carrying passengers to the edge of space, the imminent flight of Blue Origin New Shepard to suborbital quote, carrying passengers too. Without forgetting the 3 missions going on on Mars, and the many projects in progress, going forward to the Moon, as our Honorary Member Jan Woerner said us, during his speech at our Congress.

2021 is conformed to be a key year, for the Civilian Space Development, indeed!

During our final event we will have:

- the Ceremony of hand over of the SRI baton from Adriano V. Autino, the former President, to Prof. Bernard Foing, the President Elect.

- declarations by the President Elect and several new Directors and Vice Presidents.

- the announce of the SRI agenda for the first year.

And, we’ll do our best to reply any questions and comments by our fellow members, friends and supporters: what didn’t work enough? what could we do better? are our programs clear and well promoted? are our positions and proposals clear and shareable?

The meeting will also be broadcasted on the Space Renaissance YouTube channel. ## **Join the SRIC3 Final Event Party!**

Don’t forget to bring a good glass of wine, or beer, for a toast to the Long Life of Space Renaissance!

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Bizarre coincidence or fate?

One of the leading developers of rocket technology for the Nazis during World War II appears to have predicted the rise of an “Elon” that would one day rule over human colonies on Mars.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was an engineer born in Germany shortly before the beginning of the First World War. As a teenager, he became passionate about space flight and ended up working on liquid-fuel rockets for the German army in 1932.

He continued his work on rockets under Nazi German rule, with his team instrumental in creating the V-2 rocket. The rockets – aka Vengeance Weapon Two – would go on to kill thousands of people, though the greatest toll was on the 20000 concentration camp prisoners who died while constructing them under brutal conditions.

During his time developing rockets for Germany, he visited where they were being built, and knew of the awful conditions and deaths of the slave laborers, though he claimed to not know how awful conditions truly were. It’s unclear how enthusiastic he was about working for the Nazis, but he signed up to the party in 1937 (he would later claim it was 1939) and became an SS officer. Before the war was over, he surrendered himself to US forces, and went on to have a long career at NASA, eventually becoming director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he would work on rockets that would take humans to the Moon.

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