Galactic Suite is a Barcelona based company that plans to have a space hotel operating in orbit by 2012. Physorg had some information on this project funded by an anonymous billionaire. The cost of three nights on the Galactic Suite Space Resort (plus a two-month training course on a Caribbean island beforehand) will be $4.4 …
Carnival of Space 123 is up at Weird Warp This site provided an update on the Space elevator games. Finally they are almost ready to go and the University of Saskatchewan team is a favorite to win. Planetary society runs down all of the current robotic space mission activity. Centauri Dreams indicates how robotic space …
Biological parts: Ginkgo BioWorks, a synthetic-biology startup, is automating the process of building biological machines. Shown here is a liquid-handling robot that can prepare hundreds of reactions. Credit: Ginkgo BioWorks MIT Technology Review reports that startup Ginkgo BioWorks aims to push synthetic biology to the factory level. Ginkgo BioWorks, a new synthetic-biology startup that aims …