Branson plays space invaders in California desert
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Life in Mojave Town, the windswept and deserted frontier trading post in the Californian desert where the new Virgin Galactic base is located, is far from space age.
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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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British entrepreneur and adventurer Richard Branson, owner of the Virgin Group, announced Monday he has signed a deal with US company Mojave Aerospace Ventures (MAV) to put paying travelers into space.
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Entrepreneur Richard Branson on Wednesday unveiled a model of the spaceship he hopes will be the first to take paying passengers into space on a regular basis next year.
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Nobody can say billionaires aren&#39;t competitive: First Richard Branson announces he&#39;s going up against Paul Allen in consumer space travel.
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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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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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By Steve Connor Sir Richard Branson yesterday defended his plans to offer [pound]100,000 trips into space while at the same time setting up a [pound]12.8m prize for scientists to devise a way of absorbing carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere.
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British airline magnate Richard Branson says his company will begin launching paying customers into outer space by 2007 on the world&#39;s first commercial space flights.
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LONDON Ever since two successful flights into space were made from the Mojave Desert, thousands of people are signing up to take the same trip.
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New York, September 28: British tycoon Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group has said it was jumping into the market for online music, with a &quot;digital megastore&quot; offering US customers song downloads for 99 cents.
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Holding a US flag he carried into space, SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie salutes the crowd as a band plays the National Anthem as the spacecraft is towed down a taxiway after soaring into space in its quest to win the Ansari X Prize at Mojave, Calif
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SALT LAKE CITY - In a harrowing feat high over the Utah desert tomorrow, two helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a floating space capsule that holds &#39;a piece of the sun&#39; and bring it safely down.
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The NBA is to go outdoors with a  pre-season game played at the Tennis Garden in Indian Wells,  California.
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It was meant to be Sir Richard Branson's big day. The bearded impresario announced yesterday morning that his Virgin empire was about to soar far above its usual stock of CDs, transatlantic flights and ...
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Billionaire Richard Branson aims to take his company to the final frontier.
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MOJAVE: SpaceShipOne has landed safely in the California desert after a wild corkscrew-like ascent into space, and is now a step closer to a $US10 million prize intended to boost commercial-space travel.