British billionaire unveils plan for commercial space flight
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British billionaire Richard Branson announced Monday that his company Virgin Atlantic airline will launch the world&#39;s first commercial space flight in near future.
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Virgin Galactic shows off the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space.
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The aerospace company EADS Astrium says it will build a plane to take fare-paying passengers on sub-orbital space rides.
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A Chinese businessman has paid $200,000 (about 103,000 pounds) to become his country's first space tourist, hoping for lift-off some time by the end of 2008.
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British billionaire Richard Branson  proposed on Wednesday changes to aircraft movements at busy  airports and the way planes land under a plan he said would cut  the world's aviation emissions by up to 25 percent.
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POWAY, Calif. -- The man whose firm built the engine expected to power SpaceShipOne into suborbital space today plans to build his own craft and compete with his more celebrated partners, Paul Allen and Burt Rutan, for the extraterrestrial turf.
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Even before Burt Rutanâs SpaceShipOne soared on her second flight in six days to win the Ansari X Prize, the flamboyant British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Atlantic Airline, decided that he had seen an opportunity to make even more
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British billionaire Richard Branson unveiled a mockup of his Virgin Galactic civilian spaceship, vowing to do his part to make space travel a reality for millions of people.
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As the first X-Prize flights go ahead, BBC News Online asks SpaceShipOne's Burt Rutan to explain his motivation to fly above the Earth.
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LONDON, Feb. 9 -- British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, on Friday offered a $25 million prize for anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the Earth's...
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This week, Sir Richard Branson announced his new company, Virgin Galactic, has the rights to the first commercial flights into space.
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Tycoon Richard Branson unveiled his newest spaceship and said that test flights for the vessel would begin this year.
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Today, adventurous British entrepreneur Richard Branson formally announced that his Virgin transport, entertainment and communications company plans to launch commercial sub-orbital space flights by 2007.
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Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson announces an agreement to secure the first commercial flights 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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British entrepreneur Richard Branson said Monday that his Virgin company plans to launch commercial space flights over the next few years.
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A Las Vegas hotel magnate who is  hoping to build the world's first commercial space stations  offered $50 million on Monday to the creators of the first  privately funded spaceship to reach orbit.