Virgin Galactic&#39;s Space Odyssey
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When the first space vacations are available, Richard Branson will be there selling them. On Sept. 27, Branson&#39;s Virgin announced a partnership with Paul Allen&#39;s Mojave Aerospace Ventures and SpaceShipOne
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One short flight for man, or the start of a long voyage for rich men. That&#39;s one way of looking at Monday&#39;s historic jaunt of the revolutionary spacecraft SpaceShipOne, which crossed the brink of space for the second time in six days.
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The successful X-Prize mission of Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne last week was a major success for the commercial space industry. But although that success has led to the creation of space
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Richard Branson conquered the world. Now he wants to fly you to space. By Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine.
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Around 13,500 people plan to space passengers on Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard Branson says.
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SpaceShipOne has completed its second suborbital flight in five days, securing the $10 million Ansari X Prize. SpaceShipOne is the first privately built, manned vehicle to reach space.
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MORE than Â£800million has been pledged to Sir Richard Branson&#39;s space travel adventure - - years before the ship has even been built.
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Sir Richard Branson has kick-started a new space race, with plans to start tourist trips to the edge of the atmosphere. But are we ready for holidays at the final frontier?
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Sept. 27 - British billionaire Sir richard Branson announced today (Monday) his latest venture will be out of this world. Branson is launching &quot;Virgin Galactic&quot;, which will build 5 space craft capable flying more than 80 miles above the earth.
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Sir Richard Branson is abandoning cyberspace as he heads for outer space. Branson, whose privately owned Virgin Group operates a wide range of businesses, on Monday announced plans to launch the world's first ...
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has signed a deal with a company owned by British entrepreneur Richard Branson to develop space tourism.
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LOS ANGELES - Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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Sir Richard Branson has announced that the Virgin Group have set up a special company to offer commercial space flights by the year 2007.
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London - British airline magnate Richard Branson announced a plan on Monday for the world&#39;s first commercial space flights, saying &quot;thousands&quot; of fee-paying astronauts could be sent into orbit in the near future.
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The age of commercial space flight officially begins Monday as SpaceShipOne completes its second successful flight into space to capture the Ansari X Prize. It's $10 million to the developers, who look forward to a bright future ahead. Dan Brekke reports from Mojave, California.
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Virgin is all over the map. Yesterday morning, Sir Richard Branson introduced to the world that he was ready to make astronauts of us all by 2007.
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MARK COLVIN: Space travel is a childhood dream, but today it got a little closer to adult reality, for the wealthy, at any rate. The prototype private space vessel &quot;SpaceShipOne&quot; made a mostly successful manned test flight over the American Mojave Desert.