Space Travel....not just for Lance Bass?

According to an article on MSNBC.com, space rides are now being offered for their lowest price yet--$102,000 a pop. According to the article, "Virginia-based firm Space Adventures has signed an exclusive deal with Armadillo Aerospace, a Texas-based company founded by computer game entrepreneur John Carmack, to sell space tourist seats on new suborbital rocket ships that are currently in development at Armadillo."

The rides will take guests up to 62 miles above ground, where the craft's engine is shut down momentarily so the visitors can experience weightlessness and view earth's horizon from their location in space.

The full article can be accessed here.

Interested in Space? Tufts Summer Session offers a course entitled, "Concepts of the Cosmos," an introductory course in astronomy. For more information regarding this and other classes, please visit the Tufts Summer Session Site.

Cosmic Wanderers

U.S. Space shuttle "Discovery," lifted off Monday morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fl. If all goes to schedule, the shuttle will dock with a space station on Wednesday, for resupply of goods. For full coverage of the lift-off, please see the link to the New York Times article below:

"Shuttle Lifts Off for Space Station"

Interested in Outer Space? Check out Tufts Summer Session's "Wanderers in Space" course, which focuses on the incarnation and continuation of galaxies. More information about "Wanderers in Space," as well as Tufts Summer Session, can be found here.