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Dizzee Rascal Wants to Go Where No Rapper Has Gone Before
Rapper Dizzee Rascal. (Credit: Tuomas Vitikainen) British rapper Dizzee Rascal has become the latest high profile figure to join the ranks of Virgin Galactic’s celebritynauts: In a recent interview...
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Attenborough: Virgin Galactic in “Final Stretch”
Gear down. (Photo: Mark Greenberg) Businessworld has a Q&A with Virgin Galactic’s Stephen Attenborough, who says that he expects the company to begin commercial flights by 2012. Some key excerpts:...
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Branson: SS2 Will Be a Clean Lean Green Flying Machine
BusinessDay.co.nz has a Q&A with Richard Branson in which the British billionaire promotes the “greener” nature of the WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo combo: We should no longer rely on old,...
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Branson: SpaceShipTwo Will Fly Passengers in 10-15 Months
Will Whitehorn gives a pat on the back to Richard Branson as he greets Virgin Galactic ticketholders during the Oshkosh air show in July 2009. Virgin Galactic’s Founder says that commercial suborbital...
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Hey Aussies, Win a Trip into Space
VIRGIN PR – Virgin Money Australia is giving one lucky Australian the chance to fulfil their childhood dream and travel in to space on a Virgin Galactic flight. The competition is open to all current...
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Spaceship Company Ramps Up in Mojave
The Spaceship Company in Mojave is ramping up to produce WhiteKnightTwos and SpaceShipTwos. We have this report from Aviation Week: TSC was initially tasked with making one WK2 and four SS2s for Virgin...
View ArticleVideo: Richard Branson on Space Tourism
A CBS News report on Virgin Galactic’s space tourism plans.
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SwRI Scientists Prep for Suborbital Science Missions
SWRI — PR Boulder, Colo. — July 25, 2011 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced in February that it had contracted multiple suborbital flights for its own astronaut payload specialists as part...
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Virgin Galactic to Fly NASA Payloads to Space
VSS Enterprise on its first test flight. (Photo: Mark Greenberg) VG PR — Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS,...
View ArticleVideo: NMSA’s Christina Anderson Talks About Spaceport America
New Mexico Spaceport Authority Executive Director Christine Anderson talks about the development and future of Spaceport America. Some highlights from the El Paso Times article: The first phase of...
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Virgin Galactic vs. XCOR: Two Very Different Approaches
Space Up Houston August 2011 from Schipul – The Web Marketing Co. on Vimeo. Virgin Galactic’s Will Pomerantz and XCOR Aerospace’s Khaki McKee both gave updates on their companies’ suborbital vehicles...
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Virgin Galactic’s Chief Test Pilot Takes Controls of WhiteKnightTwo for First...
VG PR – To date, all test flights of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo have been piloted by Scaled Composite’s cadre of talented test pilots. WhiteKnightTwo took to the air for the 72nd time yesterday...
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Virigin Galactic to Hold First Industry Day
Virgin Galactic’s first ever Industry Day is a chance for potential suppliers to learn more about the goods and services that we will need to set up operations at Spaceport America in New Mexico and...
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Virgin Galactic to Begin Commercial Space Tourism Flights in…..
Gear down. (Photo: Mark Greenberg) Attenborough: [Launching our first commercial flight] 18 months to two years from now is achievable, but that isn’t to say that we will achieve it. The only thing...
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Virgin Galactic Inks $4.5 Million Deal With NASA for Research Flights
Gear down. (Photo: Mark Greenberg) VG PR – MOJAVE, CA - Virgin Galactic has confirmed an order from NASA for up to three charter flights on its privately-built spacecraft to provide opportunities for...
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