Private space station has completed 10.000 trips around Earth
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Genesis 1 spaceship was launched on July 12, 2006 with the purpose of being tested and has completed a few days ago its 10.000th trip around the Earth.Genesis 1 was built by Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, a firm that has already sent a second spaceship on June 2007: Genesis 2, which is also functioning properly so far.
Genesis 1 spaceship has a length of 4.4 meters and a diameter of 2.5 meters and according to Bigelow Aerospace officials it has "traveled the equivalent of more than 270 million miles, which would take it to the Moon and back for 1,154 times".
Throughout the 15.840 hours of the space trip the ship was power with its solar panel.
After about 660 days in space, Genesis 1 took about 15.000 images of Earth with its external cameras.
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