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' W O M E N ' S C L O T H I N G , S H O E S & A C C E S S O R I E S March 13-19, 50% off selected items March 20-27, 75% off selected items • • • • WedThurs/Fri, March 22-24, 2006 / The Park Record C-10 BCBG • Isda Billy Blues >^ w ^•^aMaHg*r^* Christopher Blues • Mattisse Sigrid Olsen • City Lights and more! , All Sales Final - Open Mon-Sat 10-7, Sun 12-5* . ., from the dark of space. Prospective prices for the next round of personal space flights aren't so astronomical - a seat aboard one of the yet-tobe-built commercial spaceships will fetch between $100,000 to LpS ANGELES (AP) 'If $250,000. Space entrepreneurs floating weightless and peering expect the price tag to drop once down on a shimmering-blue the market matures. Earth sounds appealing, you Tourists will get what they pay might consider being a space for. tourist. Instead of days in space, the As long as you've got a fat commercial spaceships under development will only reach subwallet. Two years after the first pri- orbital space, a region about 60 vately financed space flight miles up that is generally considjump-started a sleepy industry, ered the beginning of the rest of more than a dozen companies the universe. are developing rocket planes to Since the private spaceships ferry ordinary rich people oijt of lack the speed to go into orbit the atmosphere. around Earth, the flights are Several private companies essentially up and down experiwill begin building their proto- ences - lasting about two hours type vehicles this summer with with up to five minutes of plans to test fly them as early as weightlessness. next year. If all goes well, the It's more of a ride than those first tourist could hitch a galactic offered by several companies joy ride late next year or 2008 - that use Boeing 727s to produce pending approval by federal reg- a half-minute of weightlessness ulators. 'through a series of maneuvers Unlike the Cold War space about 25,000 feet up. race between the United States Those flights, which generally and Soviet Union that sent sateU sell for about $3,000, never reach lites into orbit and astronauts to space. the moon, this competition is ' "It's like an upside-down bankrolled by entrepreneurs bungee jump," said John whose competition could one, Logsdon, director of the Space day make a blast into space Policy Institute at George cheap enough for the average Washington University. Joe. "There'll be a few moments to "This time, it's personal. This view the Earth and then you space race is about getting 'us' come right back down." into space," said space historian Here is a rundown of several Andrew Chaikin. companies that will start buildFor now, commercial space ing their private spaceships this travel remains an exclusive club. summer: Over the past few years, three •The biggest name is Virgin tourists have paid a reported $20 Galactic, a space tourism firm million each to ride aboard a founded #by British billionaire Russian rocket to the orbiting tycoon Richard Branson. international space station. Branson has partnered with Burt A fourth would-be tourist - Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne in Lance Bass from the former boy 2004 became the first private' band 'N Sync - did astronaut manned craft to reach space, to training, but failed to come up build a fleet of suborbital commercial spaceships called with money for the trip. The three who made it spent SpaceShipTwo. about a week weightless and SpaceShipTwo is about the described the experience as size of a corporate Gulfstream "paradise" and "wondrous." The jet that can hold six tourists and most thrilling part for million- two crew members. Like aire U.S. scientist Gregory SpaceShipOne, it will be powOlsen, who blasted off last year, ered by a hybrid rocket motor was viewing the swirling Earth and use a "feathering" technique to glide back to Earth. The design of SpaceShipTwo is complete and construction is slated for this summer with test flights scheduled for late next year. The project's $100 million first phase is financed by Branson's Virgin Group, said Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn. Virgin Galactic plans to fly the first passengers for $200,000 apiece by late 2008 or early 2009, with the first leaving from California's Mojave Desert and later flights from a proposed spaceport in £Jew Mexico. The maiden flight would carry Branson and Rutan, among others, Whitehorn said. "This is a project not without risk," Whitehorn said recently. "It's our goal to be the first ones to do it safely." •Oklahoma-based Rocketplane Kistler is one of Virgin Galactic's biggest competitors. Rocketpiane Kistler, whose main investor is American businessman George French, hopes to start test flights next January and fly commercially by next summer. French owns several businesses including a space education company in Wisconsin. The company is building a souped-up, 42-foot-long suborbilal Lear jet that can seat three passengers and a pilot. Unlike SpaceShipTwo, which would piggyback atop a mothership to a certain height, the Rocketplane XP would take off and land like an airplane using turbojets and rockets. "It's the beginning of a whole new era of commercial space travel. Someone's got to do it and we want to be the first," said vice president John Herrington,. a former NASA astronaut who will perform the suborbital test, flights. < •Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space travel agency best known for brokering three tourists to the international space station, is the latest entrant. Last month, Space Adventures announced a partnership with members of the Ansari family - the major funders of the $10 million X Prize won by SpaceShipOrie - to; develop Russian-designed sub-' orbital rockets that would launch from a proposed spaceport in the United Arab Emirates by 2008.1 ' Space tourism companies hope wary investors will provide financial backing once they can establish a safety record and '9 prove there is sufficient demand. •: "It's changed from being a i: giggle factor to being heralded as a new business,"• said Geoff Sheerin, president >and chief executive of: Canada-based PlanetSpace. Sheerinajso founded panadian Arrow, a private rocket company that unsuccess- ! fully competed for the X Prize in 2004. •PlanetSpace, backed by American businessman Chirinjeev Kathuria, is building a 54-foot-long, Ihrcc-seat suborbitalj rocket that would launch from) somewhere in the Great Lak-ejs region and re-enter1 Earth by splashing into the water. It hope's to fly 2,000 passengers in the first five years, beginning in 2008., • "\Some market studies riavc shown the public has an attitude of "If, you build it, we will come/Futroh, a Bethesda, Mdr- -II based atrospace consulting firrri, estimated that revenues in tjie. infant, space tourism industry; .could ^xcded $1 .billion a year fey 2021 wnth he greatest demandiifi suborbital flights in which pas-1 sengers spe\d.mere minutes ink s s I space, t . Before toVrists can lift 'off, several'federa' hurdles must' be cleared! FederM regulations .that will govern hu^ian space travel, and speh out safety and: training^ requirements am expected td be'J wrapped up.this sumrrier. -V ft i !V: Transportation r Secretary NormanJtfineta. last-month iojd '&•• glatheriag. of! spke*. e'ntre#rfenetirs.; th\t tntf. \governmefat would mo\e, swiftW to graot space travel licenses to companies that can prov^'they can operate safely, That's gooQ news for people like Chaikin, the space',historian. "I've been hoping'and dreaining all my life t6 go into space. Now I actually lave a shot of doing it." Indian musician to hold workshop at UVSC The Native Sun Club at Otah Valley State College welcomes Native American Grammy Award winner Bill Miller for a workshop titled, "The Native American Flute," March 30 in Centre Stage at 1 p.m. The workshop is part of a two-day tour of the Wasatch Front with events held at UVSC, Brigham Young University and the University of Utah to support the Zamani Educare Centre, a program raising funds to support 1675 Redstone Center Dr #140 - (435)575-TRIO an impoverished impoverished;rscho"o) ^-school in South .forces forces with the'&amani the '&amani Project, a the-".remarkable the-'.remarKable artistry artisirv of thi th Africa. nonprofit, Brigham Young renowned musician ind song-1 Miller, a Mohican Indian from University student-run program, writer, as they contiibute to the Stockbridge-Munsee to garner funds for a preparatory Zamani's work with the children of Reservation in Wisconsin, recently school in the area of Duncan South Africa," said Laurie Anne won the Grammy Award for best Village, South Africa-. To date, the 'Whitt, professor of philosophy and Native American Artist and has project has collected more than integrated studies at UVSC. "We toured with Pearl Jam, the $25,000. are especially pleased that UVSC, Bodeans and Tori Amos. His "We would hope that students BYU and the U of U came togethmusic, including 10 critically and members of the community er to make this happen." acclaimed albums, biends Native would see this as an opportunity to For more information contact American music with western folk deepen their appreciation of the Integrated Siudies and blues music. Miller joins Native American culture, and of Department at (801) 863-8455. www.parkrecord.com www.parkrecord.com www.parkrecord.com www.parkrecord.com ATTENTION HOME BUYERS IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A HOME UNDER $500,000, COME TO THE " BLACKHAWK STATION OPEN HOUSE ON STEW POT LUNCH & DINNER SATURDAY, MARCH 25, FROM 12 PM TO 5PM. 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