Entrepreneurs Vow Outer-Space Vacations
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The inventors and moguls of the infant space tourism industry predict there will be deaths along the way, but it's worth it so regular people can one day blast into outer space.
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Now that rocketmen in the desert have soared into space and captured the St. Louis-based Ansari X Prize, commercial space travel seems as close as ever.
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Want to make someone's Christmas really special this year? Consider a trip to outer space.
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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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LONDON  -- British airline magnate Richard Branson announced a hugely ambitious plan for the world's first commercial space flights, saying he would send "thousands" of fee-paying astronauts into orbit in the next five years.       Branson, a flamboyant communicator and high-profile tycoon, said his Virgin Atlantic airline had signed a technology licensing deal with the US company behind SpaceShipOne, which in June became the first private manned craft to travel to space...
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As a girl, Bonnie Dunbar dreamed of building and flying her own space ships. She's done both, but the five-mission shuttle astronaut turned Museum of Flight president and CEO still gets excited about space.
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LONDON Richard Branson, the adventurous entrepreneur behind the Virgin Group, said Monday that he would form a commercial space travel company that would start carrying passengers by 2007.
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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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British entrepreneur Richard Branson said Monday that his company plans to launch commercial space flights over the next few years.
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Burt Rutan and Paul Allen&#39;s spunky-looking little spaceplane had just returned to the runway after winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize, and prize founder Peter Diamandis had a message for investors around the world who might be watching.
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Sir Richard Branson hopes his new company will be the first to send adventuresome tourists into space. Branson, founder of airlines, entertainment and telecom holding company Virgin Group, announced Monday
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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.
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Space is the one frontier that&#39;s out of reach to the average person, but the feeling of space travel is now a little less elusive.
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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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Manned space-travel enthusiasts hope to salvage planned trips to the moon and beyond, which are quickly taking a back seat to more earthly matters amid market meltdowns.
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A group of space futurists is devising ways to do everything from bounce objects off comets to send tourists to Mars.
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Guillermo Soehnlein grew up stargazing and dreaming of space travel. He's the founder of  the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs, which launched its first chapter in Washington in April 2003. -Ellen McCarthy