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Watch Richard Branson Blast Off into Space Here!
In a move that has undoubtedly largely been planned to upstage Jeff Bezos’ launch scheduled for next week, UK entrepreneur Richard Branson will today (and all going well) become the first billionaire to ever slip the surly bonds of Earth and blast off into space. Yes, at 3:30 pm (BST)…
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Virgin Space Ship Successfully Reaches ‘Space’
Virgin Space Ship Successfully Reaches ‘Space’ Between Space X and the Virgin Galactic program, there seems to definitely be something of a space race on our hands. Rather than getting us back to the moon though, the main purpose of these missions is to make a flight into ‘space‘ commercially…
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Virgin Galactic To Launch In Just Weeks!
Virgin Galactic To Launch In Just Weeks! Since the beginning of the year, it’s been difficult to ignore the major successes that have been seen from Elon Musk’s ‘SpaceX‘ program. It has been so successful in fact that its very easy to forget that Virgin has been looking into this…
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Stephen Hawking is Going to Outer Space
Stephen Hawking is one of the most accomplished living physicist in the world having earned countless awards including a CBE, CH, Hughes, Heineman Prize and more, but he wishes to achieve one thing that no Earthly prize can grant: go to space. Accepting an offer from billionaire Richard Branson,the world…
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Virgin Galactic Prepares to Launch SpaceShipTwo
Richard Branson has announced that Virgin is soon set to launch the latest version of its SpaceShipTwo, the result of 700 engineers working “day and night,” Branson told UK TV show Good Morning Britain (via Wired). The last iteration of SpaceShipTwo fell victim to an unfortunate explosion 18 months ago,…
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Britain Approves Europe’s First Spaceport
The British government has approved plans to build Europe’s first spaceport within the United Kingdom by 2018. The port is set to offer commercial space travel and high-speed international flights. Westminster agreed to the proposal after a three-month consultation period, during which time a shortlist of potential locations was drawn…
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Breaking News: One Dead after Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crash!
Reports are flooding in that at least one person is dead, and another is reported as injured after the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo crashed in the California desert earlier today. The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo was taking part in a manned test flight, when it was hit with “a serious anomaly”. The craft…
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NASA Awards Suborbital Contracts to Virgin Galactic and Three More
NASA has announce the four companies it awarded their suborbital payload contracts to in an announcement on Monday. The companies all got the same contract that gives “indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity for integration and flight services” over a three-year period. Each contract is worth a minimum of $100.000 and can be extended with…
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The UK Plans to Build its First Spaceport by 2018
The United Kingdom is said to have planned its first spaceport to be built and be up-and-running by 2018, while Virgin Galactic is preparing to become the first company launching space-tourism flights from within the country. The British government is said to have planned an official announcement this Tuesday, where…
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Forget Virgin Galactic, Take A Balloon To Space
World View Enterprises of Tucson, Arizona has claimed their balloon tests have be successfully completed, in what could be come the first high-altitude balloon capsule being developed for tourists to travel around 20 miles above the Earth’s surface. The first tests have given the company the world record for the…
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Virgin Galactic To Start Accepting Bitcoin For Space Flights
Richard Branson has given his approval for the crypto-currency, BitCoin. The digital currency is becoming more and more main stream by the day and it is possible to pay for all kinds of worldly goods that now range from a tummy tuck to a trip to space! So long as…
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