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Virgin joins 70-mile-high club with launch of spaceship
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 4 hours ago
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She didn't attempt lift-off, but she did roll very neatly across the tarmac. The nose cone stayed in one piece when Arnold Schwarzenegger smashed a bottle of champagne across it. And when Sir Richard Branson proudly dubbed his new spacecraft "very sexy"...
Tags: Sir Richard, VSS Enterprise, Richard Branson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles, Sub-orbital spaceflight, Tier 1b, Spaceflight, Virgin Galactic, Space tourism, Scaled Composites, Manned spacecraft
Signing up for a space flight
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 13 hours ago
Credibility Ruslan Kogan will soon be seeing stars, having this week been confirmed as one of Australia’s first-ever space tourists after paying the 10 per cent deposit on his $220,000 boarding pass. The 27-year-old Melbourne business whiz-kid said he jumped at the...
Tags: Los Angeles, Space tourism, Kogan, Richard Branson, Space shuttle in popular culture, Tier 1b, Space Shuttle program, Brevard County Florida, Virgin Group, Virgin Galactic, Human spaceflight, Human Interest, Titusville Florida, Kennedy Space Center, Space Shuttle, Scaled Composites WhiteKnightTwo, Tier One
Vanna Bonta Tweets 1st Sub-orbital Passenger Spaceship
Albuquerque :: NM :: USA | about 18 hours ago
Credibility Vanna was present at an event yesterday at the Mojave, California air and space port for the unveiling of the 1st sub-orbital passenger spaceship. This is a huge step on the way of making space travel accessible to people outside the ranks of government...
Tags: Vanna Bona, Lucky Vanna, Vanna Bonta How Lucky, Vanna Bonta Tweets, space ports, commercial spaceship, orbital passenger, Albuquerque, VSS Enterprise, Tier 1b, Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Group, Virgin Galactic, Tier One, Space tourism, Manned spacecraft
Tourists can now flock to outer Space
The stage has been set by NASA and it is within the realms of possibility to take a vacation to outer space. In fact, one could contemplate ‘Marriage in Outer Space’ – it would be an exotic affair. If you can afford it, that is. Outer...
Tags: nasa, outer space, space flight, Richard Branson, virgin galactic
Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship
Mojave :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility It's billed as the world's first commercial spaceship, designed to be carried aloft by an exotic jet before firing its rocket engine to climb beyond the Earth's atmosphere. In a Hollywood-style rollout, Virgin Galactic on Monday took the cloak off SpaceShipTwo,...
Tags: Richard Branson, Burt Rutan, sir richard, Branson Rolls, California, Virgin Galactic, Mojave Desert, commercial spaceship, california desert, Mojave, Tier 1b, Space tourism, Manned spacecraft, Tier One, Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, Scaled Composites, Spaceplanes, VSS Enterprise, Spaceflight, Sub-orbital spaceflight, Scaled Composites WhiteKnightTwo, Commercial spaceflight, Spaceport, Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne, Weightlessness
Richard Branson unveils first commercial spaceship
Montreal :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility The eight-seater, rocket-powered vehicle was unveiled at a site in the Mojave desert, California. Branson said that after testing in 2010 he hopes the revolutionary spacecraft will be ready to start commercial flights from a space port currently under...
Tags: Virgin Galactic Prepares, Richard Branson, Mojave Desert, branson unveils, California, space tourists, commercial spaceship, Ottawa, Canada, Montreal, Tier 1b, Space tourism, Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic, Manned spacecraft, Tier One, Scaled Composites WhiteKnightTwo, Spaceflight, Virgin Group, Spaceplanes, Scaled Composites, Business Finance, Burt Rutan, VMS Eve, Technology Internet, VSS Voyager, Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne, Disaster Accident
Virgin Galactic readies maiden flight
Reykjavík :: Iceland | 3 days ago
Credibility The lunar-like landscape of the Mojave desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas will stage the roll-out of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2), the brain child of aerospace engineer Burt Rutan. SS2, which can carry six passengers and two pilots, plans...
Tags: Virgin Galactic, Charles Chafer, Iceland, Reykjavík, Tier 1b, Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, Spaceflight, Scaled Composites WhiteKnightTwo, British space programme, Space tourism, Tier One
John Travolta Turned Down Space Trip
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The Grease star has revealed how Richard Branson offered him the chance to take a seat on his Virgin Galactic space ship but he was forced to decline because it would have cost him too much in lost earnings. “I think I would like it,” Travolta said. “I’ve...
Tags: John Travolta, Virgin Galactic, Los Angeles, Richard Branson, Knights Bachelor, Tier 1b, Virgin Group, Grease, British space programme, Space tourism, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Paramount films
Richard Branson joins the space race
Abu Dhabi :: United Arab Emirates | 5 days ago
Credibility On Monday, however, it will play host to a very modern spectacle when Sir Richard Branson unveils the latest stage of his scheme to transform space travel into a cheap, commercial proposition. On a barren airstrip tucked into the edge of the desert, the...
Tags: Richard Branson, Burt Rutan, Virgin Galactic, Earth, WhiteKnightTwo, United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, Spaceplanes, Tier 1b, Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, Scaled Composites WhiteKnightTwo, Space tourism, Tier One, Manned spacecraft
Space Agents to Witness Premier of SpaceShipTwo
Åsa :: Sweden | 19 days ago
Credibility The three House of Travel retailers are the only travel agencies in New Zealand to have been hand-selected as a Virgin Galactic Accredited Space Agent (ASA), having completed intensive product training with Virgin Galactic in order to provide the highly...
Tags: Virgin Galactic, Sweden, Åsa, Tier One, Spaceplanes, Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, Scaled Composites WhiteKnightTwo, Space tourism, Tier 1b, Manned spacecraft
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