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• Boldly going where no one has developed a business before

  
  Front End of Innovation — Authority: 123
  "If the development of air travel was the responsibility of NASA, wed still be traveling from city to city staring at the [back] end of an oxen." This was a quote from Burt Rutan , whom I met at the Front End of Innovation Conference a couple of years ago. While its all too common to complain about the ...
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• Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo: the video unveiling

  
  Engadget — Authority: 848
  Youve already engrossed yourself in the media reports stemming from Mojave Spaceport, but if youve been hunting high and low for a few good frames of the SpaceShipTwo unveiling , look no further. Our homeslices over at Gadling were on hand for the event, and they did the honors of filming the introduction as well ...
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• Nanotech in space

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 438
  Well, theoretically in space in the form of improving ion-propulsion systems . In reality if interstellar, or even travel within the solar system beyond Mars, has any hope feasibility, it’s going to require a major breakthrough in getting from point A (ostensibly Earth) and point B. It’ll be interesting to see ...
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• Video: SpaceShipTwo Unveiling

  
  Autopia — Authority: 741
  We’ve got video of last night’s unveiling of VSS Enterprise , the vessel Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic will use the carry well-heeled folks to the edge of space. Sir Richard and the guys at Scaled Composites rolled Enterprise out of her hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port, where it was christened by ...
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• Space: Richard Branson Unveils Sexiest Spaceship Ever

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 155
  Commercial space travel just made a giant leap with the unveiling of SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactics newest vessel and the worlds first commercial spacecraft. Sir Richard Branson talks to Discovery News Irene Klotz about his latest innovation.
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• behold the shape of things to come. hopefully…

  
  weird things — Authority: 466
  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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• The worlds first commercial spaceflight

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 773
  Space travel seems almost out of vogue these days, compared with its heyday in the latter half of last century. However, Richard Branson and Burt Rutan may be about to change all that by launching commercial space travel. This may sound like a fantasy, but the world’s first commerical spacecraft was revealed by ...
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• VSS Enterprise

  
  The Awesomer — Authority: 622
  Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, aka the VSS Enterprise , has been unveiled; with the help of VMS Eve , it’ll ferry 6 passengers and 2 pilots to the edge of space starting in 2011 for $200k. Link: http://www.theawesomer.com/c/click.php?id=8179 Price: $200,000
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• Virgin Launches Space Flights

  
  Argus Car Hire — Authority: 128
  After five years of hush-hush development, a windswept Richard Branson last night launched Virgin’s first commercial spacecraft.Unveiling SpaceShipTwo in front of a shivering audience in the Mojave Desert, California, Sir Richard called it the “sexiest spaceship ever.”Already up to 300 people have forked out ...
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• Virgin Galactic Unveils Worlds First Commercial Passenger Spaceship

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 703
  Yesterday Virgin Galactic publicly unveiled the worlds first commercial passenger spacecraft, which can take six passengers and two pilots into suborbital flight. The passenger capsule is suspended between two more traditional aircraft which will carry the vehicle into the upper atmosphere before releasing it. ...
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• Up, up and away

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 514
  Virgin Galactic unveiled the VSS Enterprise, the world’s first commercial spaceship in a glittering ceremony on Monday. “Isn’t that the sexiest spaceship ever?” said the company’s head, billionaire Richard Branson. The SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, which has been created by aerospace engineer Burt Rutan, can ...
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• Will There Be Airport Parking Problems In Space?

  
  Taking off Travel blog — Authority: 116
  Will there be airport parking - or should that be spaceport parking - problems in space? Just as the early inventors of the car would have found it hard to imagine the chaos that affects our roads at rush hour and the need to pre book off airport parking just to be able to make a flight, we may find it hard to imagine ...
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• Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceshipTwo

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 711
  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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• SpaceShipTwo Christened - VSS Enterprise

  
  Autopia — Authority: 741
  On a cold and windy night at the Mojave Air and Space Port, the VSS Enterprise was unveiled to the public tonight. Attached to its mother ship, the vehicle better known as SpaceShipTwo is expected to be the first commercial spacecraft when it enters service with Virgin Galactic. SpaceShipTwo was built by Scaled ...
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• Virgin Galactic Gears Up for Space Flights

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 720
  As if his plan for global domination weren’t enough, Virgin Group honcho Richard Branson is taking to space with his new commercial spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, which will grant six paying customers at a time the experience of weightlessness for six minutes.  —KA Check out Virgin Galactic’s Web site here . ...
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• Virgin Galactic Ready To Unveil SpaceShipTwo

  
  Autopia — Authority: 741
  After more than five years of waiting, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is ready to be unveiled to the public tonight at a ceremony in the Mojave desert. Following on the success of SpaceShipOne in 2004, the six passenger SpaceShipTwo already has a backlog of more than 300 passengers who are waiting for their ride ...
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• Virgin Founder Talks SpaceShipTwo

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 155
  Billionaire and space tourism pioneer Richard Branson discusses Virgin Galactics plans for commercial space flight.
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• Going to Space?

  
  Delivered By Grace | Theology Blog — Authority: 124
  Is it possible that ordinary people will now be able to travel to space?  Not exactly.  However, it is possible for extremely wealthy people to travel to space!  According to Virgin founder, Sir. Richard Branson - for $200,000 you can join him on a trip to space.  Click here for the full story.
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• Virgin Galactic Unveils Passenger Space-Liner

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 131
  Today, Virgin Galactic is scheduled to unveil SpaceShipTwo in Californias Mojave Desert, the first spacecraft for private passenger travel.With several firms working on commercial suborbital spaceships, a two-hour flight to anywhere on Earth may soon be possible...
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• Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceShipTwo, plans commercial space flights in 2011

  
  Engadget — Authority: 848
  Weve been waiting an awful long time for this day to come, and now were doing our darndest to rush away 2010. Today, Sir Richard Branson officially took the wraps off of a spacecraft that we initially peeked back in June of 2008 : the SpaceShipTwo. Designed to hold six passengers and two pilots, this magnificent ...
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