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1 Angelina and Brad Set To Ride Virgin Galactic Spaceship
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2 Branson to Marry Couple High in the Sky
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3 Daily Tech: The Virgin Galactic White Knight 2 Is Unveiled
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4 Would You Take a Tour Through Space?
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5 Space Geeks Rejoice! Virgin Galactic Makes First Manned Flight
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6 Geek Shot: Virgin Galactic's Spaceport Draws a Crowd
A crowd of journalists, future astronauts, and designers gathered outside the Virgin Galactic Spaceport America yesterday. Sir Richard Branson and Buzz Aldrin were on hand to christen the new facility. Read more
Get your checkbooks ready: Virgin Galactic made its first successful attempt at a manned free flight over the weekend, paving the way for commercial space flights in the future. In a test run performed on Sunday, the SpaceShipTwo was successfully released from its "mothership" at 45,000 feet, and afterward, glided safely back to Earth. So far, it's a milestone in the Virgin Galactic test program Read more
It's one thing to explore the stars with your feet planted firmly on the ground, yet it's a totally different ball game to see them up close from the comfort of a spaceship. Virgin Galactic has long been the front-runner in consumer space exploration, but now it seems that Boeing is getting in on the star tour action with its own commercial space capsule that is aiming to get passengers into Read more
The White Knight 2 mothership spaceship, which will shuttle SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space, was unveiled in the Mojave desert this past weekend. It is the world's largest all carbon composite aircraft. — CrunchGear Sony's new FW-Series laptops are now available for preorder. — The Gadget Blog Steve Jobs has finally addressed his health with a reporter, stating that he was sick during Read more
Starting this Summer, customers will finally be able to go the distance (literally) and hop on board the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo for its very first test flights. "Customers will have a two-hour flight, go up to 70 miles above the Earth and experience amazing views of the planet, G forces, and weightlessness after a three-day training program," said a spokesperson from Virgin Galactic. And Read more
The Science Museum in London has opened its doors to tourists who want to explore the prototype cabin of the Virgin Galactic spaceship. Virgin Galactic is hoping to make space travel a possibility for all human kind with this luxury spacecraft which carries six passengers and two pilots. In a few months space travel as tourism will become a reality for those who can afford the $200,000 price tag Read more
