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.
But something that had seemed mundane when he was a kid, space travel, seemed out of reach, until he met a guy named Eric Anderson who was trying to establish a private space travel company.
In February 2010, President Obama announced a plan to make technology innovation and commercial space travel the centerpiece of his space strategy.
So far, billions of dollars of taxpayers' cash has allowed only around 400 people to travel into space.
For a time, I was committed to science and math excellence, because of my desire to travel to space.
On May 28, 1959 a rhesus monkey named Able and a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker blasted off on an American Jupiter missile and became the first primates to successfully travel into space and return to Earth alive.
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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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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Shuttleworth's dream of space travel gained momentum last year when California equity fund manager Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space.
After decades of expensive and infrequent space travel we seem to be at the cusp of a new generation of much less expensive and faster growing commercial space transportation options.
But I am mindful of how much farther the American space enterprise must travel to reach the final frontier of space exploration and discover the limits of our own scientific enterprise.
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Here's a way: Commit America to big, gaudy, public contests in space travel and energy.
In many ways these are dreary, dreadfully boring alternatives to moon colonies and space travel.
Rocket fuel is currently the No. 1 reason that space travel is so expensive.
And only human beings are capable of adapting to the inevitable uncertainties posed by space travel.
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We've undertaken space travel because the desire to explore and understand is part of our character.
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With reusable rockets, space travel could be easier to attain for more people, he said.
Maybe you think space travel is just a pipedream so you settle for something else.
Musk has outsized ambitions to create private sector space travel and electric sports cars.
Blue Origin is one of several start-ups aiming to open up space travel to paying customers.
But it remains to be seen whether private space travel is a business that can survive.
So the ISS's value for science and even as a staging post for deep space travel is not clear-cut.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, space travel led to the next phase of human evolution.
Commander Hadfield believes that the ISS provides the perfect test bed for developing deep space travel capabilities.
Manned space travel has been one of the greatest triumphs in the history of the United States.
Taxpayers also pick up the tab for other items like staff benefits, travel, office space and postage.
Predictions of robots, popular space travel and personal helicopters now seem as dated as Bakelite and brilliantine.
There is the techno version of the future, filled with personal electronic implants, space travel and laser weapons.
If recent figures are any indication, commercial space travel may prove to be a profitable enterprise for Boeing.
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Space travel in general is a challenge, regardless of whether it is done by government or private industry.
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