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• Virgin Galactic preps SpaceShipTwo

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Airlines , Transportation , News Virgin Galactic continues its march toward bringing space tourism to the (wealthy) masses and is reportedly putting the finishing touches on SpaceShipTwo, the vehicle that will take adventurous, and well heeled, travelers into sub-orbit. According to this story ...
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• Virgin/Manor deal, Tai as team boss, to be revealed

  
  Flagworld.com >> News — Authority: 454
  Official confirmation of Virgin’s takeover of the new formula one team Manor is expected imminently. The FIA reinforced one of F1’s worst-kept secrets this week when it was revealed that Manor would be called ‘Virgin Racing’ in 2010. Another major hint about the heavy involvement of billionaire Sir ...
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• 62MC Rec: Space Tourism is no hoax; Jeff Bezos picks Science Projects; V.G.’s Launcher One

  
  62 Mile Club — Authority: 123
  Source The Space Review As originally published by The Space Review on November 23, 2009 (author, Stephen Ashworth) In 2004, the European Space Agency released a design study called “Human Missions to Mars: Overall Architecture Assessment” . This study was undertaken after a decade of work, notably by ...
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• New Marketing Video from Virgin Galactic

  
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• SpaceShipTwo rollout

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 482
  To create SpaceShipTwo, Burt Rutan translated the technical advances of SpaceShipOne into a craft designed for passenger comfort and everyday reliability. An overview by Carl Hoffman in Decembers WIRED , ahead of this weeks scheduled rollout of Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo . Lunar Pioneer, LLPThe Lunar ...
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• Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo getting ready for test flights ahead of space tourism

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Virgin Galactics sub-orbital space plane, the SpaceShipTwo, is preparing for test flights - and Richard Bransons company hopes it will be taking tourists into space by 2012.
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• Indy Transponder 30-NOV-09 1130z

  
  Indy Transponder — Authority: 141
  Sukhoi pilots ready to show what they can do - New Straits Times | "Being a frontline squadron, and not an aerobatic squadron, we have other missions," said Suri. Lara Lombardi of AugustaWestland finishing a model of a ... Air show a success - Helena Independent Record | As a member of the Gateway to ...
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• SpaceShipTwo Readied for Dec. 7 Rollout

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 531
  Artists conception of WhiteKnightTwo and the SpaceShipTwo space tourism vehicle. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) Virgin Galactic’s Space-Grazing Aircraft Is Ready for Liftoff Wired After all of the prize money and media coverage, routine space tourism — this grand flight of human fancy — seems about to happen. ...
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• Is Research the Killer app for sub orbital flights?

  
  62 Mile Club — Authority: 123
  Source Cosmic Log by Alan Boyle Alan Stern, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute who is helping suborbital science get off the ground. During today’s sesson of the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight in Las Cruces, N.M., Stern figured that private-sector ...
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• Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Owns Part of Virgin Galactic, Tesla Motors

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 531
  Sir Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic pilots, staffers and investors. To his right is Mohamed Badawy Al-Husseiny, CEO of Aabar, which made a $280 million in Virgin Galactic. There’s an interesting story in The National about how Aabar Investments – a company backed by the Abu Dhabi government – has ...
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  Rhetoric & Rockets — Authority: 120
  Potpourri CXIIITodays little doses of the different:The U.S. Science & Engineering Festival, the first national science festival, will be happening in Washington, DC, October 23-24, 2010.From Dar, Data in the Cloud from Dallas to Mars. This article on the blog Shepherds Pi talks about Microsofts latest search ...
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• Branson Wins Flightglobal’s Innovator of the Year Award

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 531
  Richard Branson after his first flight aboard WhiteKnightTwo at the Oshkosh airshow. Virgin Galactic founder and CEO Richard Branson has won Flightglobal’s Innovator of the Year award for his efforts to launch space tourism. Branson’s award was collected by Flight International editor Murdo Morrison on ...
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• Branson: Next Stop, the Moon

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 531
  In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National, Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson says that his company hopes to conduct tourism trips around the moon: “We’re looking at building small little spaceships, two-man spaceships with glass tops which will be programmed to pull you ...
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• "The Art of Living Well" : an Inside Look at Privé International

  
  Luxvelocity — Authority: 137
    Interview with Cyprian Lerch, CEO of Privé International How did you come about founding the company PrivéInternational? First of all I would like to thank you for the opportunityto allow me to give some insight into our company and what we are all about. In2005 I had the opportunity to dine with ...
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  62 Mile Club — Authority: 123
  Source: Popular Mechanics New Area 51: Mojave’s Desert Outpost Holds Spaceflight’s Future By Joe Pappalardo Two technicians in coveralls stoop to push a gleaming white plane through open hangar doors into the bright sunshine of southern California’s Mojave Desert. The tailless aircraft is ...
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• LauncherOne: Virgin Galactic aiming for the unmanned launch business, with Surrey Satellite Technologies

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 482
  Johnathan Amos Spaceman Blog BBC NEWS You are going to hear a lot in the next few weeks about Virgin Galactic , not least because on 7 December the company will unveil SpaceShipTwo in the Mojave Desert, California. I want to concentrate on another Galactic project which is now gathering pace - the ...
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• License to Thrill Meet the first commercial rocketship pilots

  
  62 Mile Club — Authority: 123
  Source: Air & Space Smithsonian By Michael Belfiore In the old days it was straightforward enough. The planet had two corps of astronauts, Soviet and U.S., and to join one, you had to be a military test pilot. But now the rules have changed. You don’t have to be an American or a Russian anymore, and you ...
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• Richard Branson

  
  Morninglory, analyse financire — Authority: 123
  Le fabuleux destin de Richard Branson ou comment devient-on un grand patron à la tête d’une fortune estimée à plus de trois milliards de livres sterling …. Du cancre à l’école au milliardaire père fondateur de Virgin (Megastores, Atlantic, Cola, Direct, Trains, Active…) Richard Branson est une ...
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• Investment in Commercial Spaceflight Grows to $1.46 Billion Industry Study Reveals

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  Total investment in the commercial human spaceflight sector has risen by 20% since January 2008, reaching a cumulative total of $1.46 billion, according to a new extensive study performed by the Tauri Group and commissioned by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. Revenues and deposits for commercial human ...
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• Moray MP: What You Talkin’ About, Willie?

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 531
  MP ‘mystified’ by comments about UK space flights The Press and Journal Moray MP Angus Robertson last night said he was “mystified” by Virgin Galactic’s claims that British laws must be changed before Moray can be considered as Europe’s international space station base. The company plans to offer ...
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