My Outer Space: Beam Me Up Scotty, Space Tourist, Invisible Sky, Virgin Galactic

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Is the utterance Beam me up Scotty going to be the way of the future.  Yes, it seems according to a couple of MIT fellows, Max Tegmork and Edward Farhi.  They were presented the film, Jumpers, a fillm about people who do teleport from place to place and get away with bank robbery in doing so.

The scientists after watching the film said that actually it is scientifically possible and in accordance with the laws of physics although it is way, way in the future.  They have teleported particles of light three kilometers and electrons in their experiments.  The technology is even close for actual objects but and easier way of teleporting was discussed and that with the use of "worm holes" , entities that exist in space connecting two different points.  Beam me to Paris, is all I can say.

The newest space tourist who will take a trip to the space station is starting to get training and briefed on the nine day space adventure.  Owen Garriott will be the 6th paying customer to make the trip to the station.  At a cost of 30 million dollars, Mr. Garriott is the son of the astronaut, Owen Garriot and creater of the Ultima series of on-line games. I wish him the best of luck on his trip to the stars.

NASA has created a book of universal wonders for the blind.  It is a sixty page book that has 28 images in Braille of space and planets textured with bumps and other nuances that indicate the visual to the blind.  The book, Invisible Sky, created by Noreen Grice, Simon Steel and Doris Daou can be bought from NASA on their site and will become available at Watch Tower book stores soon.

And getting back to space tourists, Richard Branson, presented two models of the space ships, the Virgin Galactic,  that will take anybody willing to pay $200,000 dollars to the edge of space.  Branson presented the models at the Museum of Natural History in New York City and declared 2008 the year of the space ship.  The trip will provide riders with weightlessness and amazing views of space and earth.  The test flights will begin this year with the first official launch in 2009.  100 prospective customers attended the ceremony and all were awed by the designs and that their dreams will soon come true.