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Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic Could Beat Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin as the First 'Space Billionaire' in Space
Richard Branson could beat Jeff Bezos as the first 'space billionaire' to travel to space as per a new report. Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo rocket plane could be taking Branson in space as soon as July 4.
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Richard Branson Says He'll Fly to Space by July Aboard Virgin Galactic Spaceship
"My wish is to go up on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, that's what we're working on," the head of the Virgin group said on the sidelines of an event to honour Virgin Galactic.
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Virgin Galactic Tests Rocket Ship, Three Years After Fatal Accident
Virgin Galactic conducted a supersonic test flight over the Sierra Nevada mountains of its SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship on Thursday.
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Watch Richard Branson's New Spaceship Fly Solo For The First Time
More than two years after one of its spacecrafts crashed, killing the co-pilot, Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo back in the air this weekend for its first "glide flight."
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Virgin Galactic Spaceship Makes First Glide Flight
Virgin Galactic's new spaceship has made a successful first glide flight, a key step after a deadly crash of its predecessor two years ago, the spaceflight company said on Saturday.
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Eyes Still Beyond The Skies
Sir Richard Branson knows how to throw a party. And he made sure that the unveiling of his new spacecraft was feted appropriately in a massive hangar here Friday, with pumping music, swirling lights and, of course, champagne.
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Virgin Galactic to Roll Out New Space Tourism Rocket Plane
SpaceShipTwo is designed to be flown by a crew of two and carry up to six passengers on a high-speed suborbital flight to the fringes of space.
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Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Pilot Describes Harrowing Free Fall After Breakup
The safety board concluded the breakup was triggered when co-pilot Michael Alsbury prematurely unlocked a braking system.
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Amazon CEO Bezos' Rocket Firm to Begin Suborbital Test Flights This Year
Blue Origin's New Shepard spaceship is designed to fly three people and/or a mix of passengers/ payloads to altitudes about 100 km above Earth.
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New Spaceship Restoring Hope After Virgin Galactic Crash
Virgin Galactic hopes to complete construction of the second SpaceShipTwo, informally called hope, in mid-2015.
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Pilot Mystery at Heart of Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crash Probe
The probe of Virgin Galactic's space plane crash in California hinges on a central mystery: Why a seasoned test pilot would prematurely unlock the craft's moveable tail section, setting off a chain of events that led to destruction of the ship and his death.
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Many Questions Still Unanswered in Spaceship Crash
Federal accident investigators have an early sense of what went wrong before an experimental spaceship designed to carry tourists beyond the Earth's atmosphere broke apart during a test flight. But they still don't know why the craft prematurely shifted its shape prior to the deadly crash.
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Pilot Actions Being Examined in Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Crash
The untimely engagement of the tail mechanism and the possibility that pilot error was to blame were disclosed by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) late on Sunday.
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Branson Determined to Find Cause of Virgin Spaceship Crash, Pilots Identified
We owe it to our pilots to find out exactly what went wrong," Branson said during a news conference in Mojave.
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Virgin Crash Sets Back Space Tourism by Years: Experts
The deadly crash of Virgin Galactic's spacecraft has dealt a devastating setback to the cause of space tourism, delaying the first commercial flights to the stars by years, experts said Friday.
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Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic Could Beat Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin as the First 'Space Billionaire' in Space
Richard Branson could beat Jeff Bezos as the first 'space billionaire' to travel to space as per a new report. Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo rocket plane could be taking Branson in space as soon as July 4.
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Richard Branson Says He'll Fly to Space by July Aboard Virgin Galactic Spaceship
"My wish is to go up on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, that's what we're working on," the head of the Virgin group said on the sidelines of an event to honour Virgin Galactic.
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Virgin Galactic Tests Rocket Ship, Three Years After Fatal Accident
Virgin Galactic conducted a supersonic test flight over the Sierra Nevada mountains of its SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship on Thursday.
-
Watch Richard Branson's New Spaceship Fly Solo For The First Time
More than two years after one of its spacecrafts crashed, killing the co-pilot, Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo back in the air this weekend for its first "glide flight."
-
Virgin Galactic Spaceship Makes First Glide Flight
Virgin Galactic's new spaceship has made a successful first glide flight, a key step after a deadly crash of its predecessor two years ago, the spaceflight company said on Saturday.
-
Eyes Still Beyond The Skies
Sir Richard Branson knows how to throw a party. And he made sure that the unveiling of his new spacecraft was feted appropriately in a massive hangar here Friday, with pumping music, swirling lights and, of course, champagne.
-
Virgin Galactic to Roll Out New Space Tourism Rocket Plane
SpaceShipTwo is designed to be flown by a crew of two and carry up to six passengers on a high-speed suborbital flight to the fringes of space.
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Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Pilot Describes Harrowing Free Fall After Breakup
The safety board concluded the breakup was triggered when co-pilot Michael Alsbury prematurely unlocked a braking system.
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Amazon CEO Bezos' Rocket Firm to Begin Suborbital Test Flights This Year
Blue Origin's New Shepard spaceship is designed to fly three people and/or a mix of passengers/ payloads to altitudes about 100 km above Earth.
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New Spaceship Restoring Hope After Virgin Galactic Crash
Virgin Galactic hopes to complete construction of the second SpaceShipTwo, informally called hope, in mid-2015.
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Pilot Mystery at Heart of Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crash Probe
The probe of Virgin Galactic's space plane crash in California hinges on a central mystery: Why a seasoned test pilot would prematurely unlock the craft's moveable tail section, setting off a chain of events that led to destruction of the ship and his death.
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Many Questions Still Unanswered in Spaceship Crash
Federal accident investigators have an early sense of what went wrong before an experimental spaceship designed to carry tourists beyond the Earth's atmosphere broke apart during a test flight. But they still don't know why the craft prematurely shifted its shape prior to the deadly crash.
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Pilot Actions Being Examined in Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Crash
The untimely engagement of the tail mechanism and the possibility that pilot error was to blame were disclosed by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) late on Sunday.
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Branson Determined to Find Cause of Virgin Spaceship Crash, Pilots Identified
We owe it to our pilots to find out exactly what went wrong," Branson said during a news conference in Mojave.
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Virgin Crash Sets Back Space Tourism by Years: Experts
The deadly crash of Virgin Galactic's spacecraft has dealt a devastating setback to the cause of space tourism, delaying the first commercial flights to the stars by years, experts said Friday.
