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• Sir Richard Branson Unveils Virgin Galactic Space Travel

  
  Luxury Travel and Lifestyle News — Authority: 130
  Sir Richard Branson unveiled the latest entreprenurial venture for Virgin: Space Travel. Virgin Galactic, a division of Virgin Atlantic Airways, will offer space toursim aboard the Virgin Enterprise. The first space tourism flights are set to launch in 2011 and bookings are already in effect for the first space travel ...
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• Virgin Galactic SS2 Rollout: The Pomerantz Report

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 128
  The Pomerantz Report has returned, with a report from the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Unveiling event on December 7, 2009:
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• VIDEO: Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo unveil

  
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• Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo

  
  LUXUO Luxury Blog — Authority: 524
  In California yesterday, space tourism company Virgin Galactic unveiled a craft designed to carry passengers on short flights into space.800 press, future astronauts and VIP guests gathered in the desert for a press conference and to view the roll out of the world’s first commercial spaceline.The design of ...
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• behold the shape of things to come. hopefully…

  
  weird things — Authority: 465
  After years of secrecy and bold talk from Richard Branson, the first commercial spacecraft for sub-orbital flight and its carrier craft have been unveiled to the public. SpaceShipTwo is the size of a large cabin private jet and will accelerate to 2,600 mph with its hybrid rocket motor, reaching a maximum altitude of ...
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• Video: SpaceShipTwo Rollout in Mojave

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 530
  © Douglas for Parabolic Arc , 2009. | Permalink | No comment |Add to del.icio.us Post tags: space tourism , SpaceShipTwo , virgin galactic Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh
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• Travel Agent: Virgin Galactic Space Flights Will be “Life Changing”

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 530
  Photo Credit: Sam Coniglio I found an interesting Q&A with Matthew Upchurch, CEO of the Virtuoso travel consortium that is selling tickets aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital flights. What will it be like to travel into space on Virgin Galactic? Life-changing. That’s the best way to ...
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• U.S. Military Eyes Virgin Galactic as Launch Provider

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 530
  Virgin Galactic launch vehicle attractive to U.S. military Spaceflight Now As Virgin Galactic prepares to roll out its suborbital passenger spaceship, U.S. military officials seeking low-cost, responsive access to space are studying the company’s latest exotic concept to deliver small satellites to orbit. ...
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• Virgin Galactic SS2 Photo Gallery

  
  62 Mile Club — Authority: 126
  Source: Virgin Galactic SS2 out of hangar for first time VG Press Conference at Mojave Spaceport Virgin Galactics roll out event of SS2 Rollout of VSS Enterprise Governors schwarzenegger and Richardson name SpaceShipTwo
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• Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo (Photos)

  
  Gadling — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Business , Photos , North America , United States , Transportation , News December 7th, 2009 ; theres a good chance it wont be remembered as a milestone in history. But it can certainly be marked as a major stepping stone in the human endeavor of space exploration. At roughly 5.30pm on ...
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• The Space Review: Suborbital Research, Safety and Ares

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 530
  Students performe an experiment in microgravity aboard the Airbus A300 Zero-G plane. In The Space Review this week: Building up a new market for suborbital spaceflight Jeff Foust reports on an emerging space research market that proponents believe could someday be bigger than space tourism itself. ...
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• Canadian DreamSpace Group Pursuing Suborbital Tourism Vehicle

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 530
  A Canadian Press profile of Virgin Galactic client John Criswick also contained some interesting information about Brian Feeney of Toronto and his 20-member team are continuing to develop his XF-1 passenger space plane. The CEO and chairman of DreamSpace Group, who has worked in the aerospace sector all his life, ...
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• CSF Applauds SpaceShipTwo Rollout

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 530
  COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT FEDERATION PRESS RELEASE SpaceShipTwo, intended to carry passengers and scientific payloads into suborbital space, is being unveiled today by Virgin Galactic in Mojave, California.  SpaceShipTwo was developed for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic by the engineering firm Scaled Composites, a ...
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• Branson Unveils First Commercial Spaceship

  
  The Latest Travel News and Information — Authority: 141
  Sir Richard Branson unveiled the world’s first ever passenger shuttle for commercial use which he says he hopes to see orbit in space as a tourist attraction. The Virgin Galactic Spaceship Two will be able to transport passengers past Earth’s atmosphere and into space as soon as 2011. The first flight will be ...
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• Would you fly on Bransons Virgin Galactic?

  
  Asylum.co.uk — Authority: 560
  Filed under: Science , Weird , News Our dreams of skipping our annual trip to Benidorm for a holiday in space just took one step closer to reality, as the worlds first ever commercial passenger spaceship was unveiled. The impressive looking SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is the product of Sir ... Read more   ...
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• Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceshipTwo

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 704
  We’ve seen the mothership from which the world’s first manned commercial spaceship will be air launched and we’ve even seen design images of the craft itself . Now Virgin Galactic is to unveil the actual spaceship that will take private astronauts into space - SpaceshipTwo (SS2). The unveiling at Mojave Air ...
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• Spaceship Two is out of the Hangar!

  
  Indy Transponder — Authority: 141
  Commercial Spaceflight for the Rest of Us: Congratulations to Virgin Galactic from The Launch Pad by Stiles By Peter H. Diamandis Chairman/CEO, X PRIZE Foundation Today Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites will roll out SpaceShipTwo (SS2) a commercial passenger carrying spaceship derived from the winning ship which ...
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• PICTURES: SpaceShipTwo unveil ceremony

  
  Hyperbola — Authority: 493
  In this blog post will be a series of images from the unveiling ceremony and party for SpaceShipTwo on 7 December 2009 at Mojave air and spaceport click on any of the pictures in this blog post to see larger versions in the same browser window credit Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: WK2/SS2 launch ...
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• The Rough Monday Edition...

  
  THE SONIC ASSAULT!!!.....STEADY BOMBARDMENT!!!! — Authority: 126
  The burden of proof shifted..its not lifted..its too heavy for some. Please!! were working this!! but they said I was aloof and arrogant..but maybe Im too heavy for some. Brotha O from Atlanta!! not Heavy D from Mt. Vernon!! but Im burning down a roof or two.its a fire cousin. Global warming?.. affected by ...
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• SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo Specs and Flight Profile

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 530
  VIRGIN GALACTIC PRESS RELEASE The Technology A completely new approach to space access for people, science and payload Air (horizontal) launch from the “WhiteKnight” purpose built aircraft not ground (vertical) launch – intrinsically safer and more environmentally friendly All carbon composite ...
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