Date: October 30, 2010
Title: Spaceport America
Organization: TecnoCasters – http://www.tecnocasters.com/
Description: Juan Guevara Torres from the TecnoCasters talks about the recent dedication of the new Spaceport America in New Mexico and the latest news from Virgin Galactic’s commercial spaceship.
Bio: TecnoCasters is the best technology podcast in Spanish. Hosted by Juan D. Guevara, Pedro Riveroll, Lorena Galan and Raul Mitre, TecnoCasters offers a funny and friendly point of view about the gadgets and technology you’ll come across in your ordinary day.
Produced simultaneously in the US and Mexico, TecnoCasters is an international podcast, specially created for the Spanish speaking audience in the world and or for all of those who want to improve their Spanish speaking skills and love technology at the same time.
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Episode 365 Days Of Astronomy : Juan D. Guevara Torres
Publication Oct, 30 2010
INTRO – JDGT
Hello everyone and welcome to this Episode of 365 days of Astronomy. My name is Juan Guevara Torres, Host of TecnoCasters – the best technology podcast En espanol. You can be in touch with us our website www.tecnocasters.com, via twitter twitter.com/tecnocasters
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Virgin Galactic is the arm of Virgin Group that is intended to develop commercial space travel. This week, the company’s chief, Sir Richard Branson celebrated the completion ofSpaceport America, the first commercial purpose-built space port in Upham, N.M.
The spaceport includes a two-mile long runway called the “Governor BIll Richardson Spaceway.” It’s 42 inches thick and can support every existing type of space craft currently in existence.
“New Mexico is not only helping to launch the commercial spaceflight industry, but we are launching new jobs and opportunities for the people of southern N.M.,” Gov. Richardson saidin a press release.
The runway was dedicated in a celebration that included Branson, Richardson, about 30 of 380 Virgin Galactic future astronauts who got to see Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo jet carry the SpaceShip Two in a landing and flyover. The future astronauts are those who have already paid or put down a deposit for the $200,00 trip, aReuters report said. The company already has deposits for more than $50 million.
“The last few weeks have been some of the mostexciting in Virgin Galactic’s development,” Branson said in the release.
“Our spaceship is flying beautifully and will soon be making powered flights, propelled by our new hybrid rocket motor, which is also making excellent progress in its own test program.”
Branson said that he plans to be taking passengers into space in nine to 18 months.
President Barack Obama recently signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 into effect. It’s a bill that appropriates $58.4 billion forNASA programs over the next three years and gives an additional flight to the space shuttle fleet.
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