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• Is Research the Killer app for sub orbital flights?

  
  62 Mile Club — Authority: 118
  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: 547
  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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• Article Title Unknown

  
  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: 547
  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: 547
  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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• Article Title Unknown

  
  62 Mile Club — Authority: 118
  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: 483
  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: 118
  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: 605
  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: 547
  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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• Virgin Galactic Turns Down Porn Shoot In Space

  
  News America Now — Authority: 144
  “Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn has said he was baffled when he was approached by someone interested in hiring the whole spacecraft – only to find out he was a porn baron. The 49-year-old said: ‘We hot approached by someone who turned out to be a porn-film maker who wanted to hire the whole ship. ...
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• Virgin shuns $1million porn shoot in space

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 579
  By Rory Reynolds THE boss of the world’s first space travel firm has revealed how a film producer attempted to hire the world’s most advanced space craft – to make a porn movie. Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn has said he was baffled when he was approached by someone interested in hiring the whole ...
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• Law change needed for Scotland spaceport

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 483
  BBC - A change in the law is needed before Scotland can be considered as a launch site for commercial space flights, the head of Virgin Galactic has said. The firms president Will Whitehorn said locations in Scotland and Sweden were being considered as bases for Virgins European operations. But he said UK laws ...
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• Where Im At

  
  It Is What It Is — Authority: 129
  Ill never get off this sodding planet! No flights can leave the planet from Scotland until the law is changed! This is what the president of Virgin Galactic , Will Whitehorn , is saying in a news . Its a shame, he says Lossiemouth is just right, and its reasonably handy for me, but because of the stupid ...
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• Reaching for the stars? First space hotel will launch in 2012, claim architects

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 149
  From Daily Mail UKReaching for the stars? First space hotel will launch in 2012, claim architectsThe first ever space hotel will be launched in 2012, say architects - and will cost £2.7million for a three-night stay.The eye-watering price will include an eight-week training course on a tropical island, before ...
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• Reaching for the stars? First space hotel will launch in 2012, claim architects

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 149
  From Daily Mail UK Reaching for the stars? First space hotel will launch in 2012, claim architects The first ever space hotel will be launched in 2012, say architects - and will cost £2.7million for a three-night stay. The eye-watering price will include an eight-week training course on a tropical island, ...
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• Concept art for Virgins LauncherOne

  
  The Original Rocket Dungeon — Authority: 433
  ParobolicArc posts a couple of concept drawings for Virgin Galactics recently announced foray into the world of small satellite launching.  The first has a cruise missile look to it and the second is more SpaceShipOne-like.  Given the differences and the quality of the drawings I am wondering if these came from ...
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• Elevator to the Stars (and Maybe a Hotel)

  
  Radioactive Communist Zombies — Authority: 130
  Lets take a break from politics for a moment. Instead of using big, expensive, disposed-after-one-use rockets to get into space (all thats left to us once the Shuttle program is grounded) another possibility is elevators.  Yes, climbing a cable into space.  Sounds like science fiction (and so far it is) but ...
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