Branson unveils part of spacecraft, seeks to popularize space travel
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Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson unveiled part of his Virgin Galactic spacecraft, expressing hope that millions will be able to travel into space in coming decades and vowing to do his part to make that a reality.
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Sir Richard Branson&#39;s new venture, Virgin Galactic, follows his signing of a $25 million deal to use technology perfected by the California-based team that made the first privately funded flight
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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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Richard Branson, Britain&#39;s best-known entrepreneur and part-time daredevil, plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds ($198,600).
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Entrepreneur and part-time daredevil Richard Branson plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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High-flying Brit entrepreneur Richard Branson today announced the imminent take-off of the &quot;VSS Virgin&quot; - a scaled-up version of Burt Rutan&#39;s SpacShipOne - which will offer well-to-do wannabe astronauts the chance of zero-grav flights for a mere Â£100,000
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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 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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Space tourism, a long-cherished dream of mankind, is a step closer to being realised with the announcement by tycoon Richard Branson that his Virgin Atlantic airline has signed a technology licensing deal with a US company.
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The creator of the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space showed models of a new, bigger version.
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Billionaire Richard Branson aims to take his company to the final frontier.
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The designer of the SpaceShipOne vessel, which cracked the barrier to manned commercial space flight earlier this year, signs a deal with Virgin Airways' Richard Branson to build more spacecraft based on that design.
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Richard Branson has announced plans for the VSS (Virgin Space Ship) Enterprise, the first of several planned &quot;space liners&quot; to be built with a total investment of $110 million.
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NEW YORK - Future thrill-seekers will ride a sleek spacecraft berthed under a massive, twin-boom mothership to the fringe of space in a design unveiled Wednesday by Virgin Galactic.
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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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After flying successfully three times in space, SpaceShipOne is in demand as an alternative way to fly people and small payloads to suborbital space.
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Sir Richard Branson on Saturday signed a deal to license the technology behind SpaceShipOne, the first private, manned spacecraft.