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Private Space Station Starlab will be a tourist destination as well as a research and manufacturing hub

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Ridgewood NJ, Nanoracks, Voyager Space, and Lockheed Martin are planning to build a free-flying private space station in low Earth orbit by 2027. Starlab will be a tourist destination as well as a research and manufacturing hub. It will feature a habitat module with 12,000 cubic feet of internal volume, a power and propulsion element, a laboratory setup, and a large external robotic arm to service payloads and cargo. NASA wants commercial stations to pick up the slack from the ISS as the outpost is due to be retired near the end of the decade.

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Its a bird ,Its a plane no It’s NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology

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Ridgewood NJ, its a bird ,its a plane no it’s NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) an experimental supersonic jet designed to reach speeds of Mach 1.4 (925mph). It is slower than the Concorde, but its cutting-edge design allows it to emit a sonic boom about as loud as the sound of a car door closing. Lockheed Martin was awarded a $247.5 million contract to assemble the aircraft in 2018.

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