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October 11, 2010

Space Tourism: Virgin Galactic To Offer Commercial Space Travel Within 18 Months

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A carrier vehicle or "mothership," White Knight 2, is a twin-bodied aircraft which brings Spaceshiptwo (named in honour of its experimental predecessor, [...]

October 11, 2010

Visualize Future Spaceflight

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That's still an open question, but flight tests of the SpaceShipTwo rocket plane and its White Knight Two mothership have been under way for some time [...]

October 11, 2010

IMHX Set To Buoy Up The UK's Handling Industry

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is offering qualifying visitors to its stand (20F100) the chance to win a $200000 ticket for a flight into space aboard Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two. [...]

October 11, 2010

GUANTNAMO TRIAL: US Is Ready To Proceed In Bombing Case

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Virgin Galactic's space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo made its first solo glide flight Sunday. SpaceShipTwo was carried aloft 45000 feet by its mother ship [...]

October 11, 2010

Branson's Virgin Galactic Completes First Solo Space Flight

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SpaceShipTwo, also known as the VSS Enterprise, was piloted by Pete Siebold and Mike Alsbury. Virgin Galactic was testing whether the spaceship could [...]

October 11, 2010

Virgin Galactic Spaceship Makes First Solo Glide

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Yesterday, the Virgin Galactic commercial spacecraft SpaceShipTwo underwent a successful first solo glide from 45000 feet back down to the surface of the [...]

October 11, 2010

Virgin To Launch Space Tourism In 18 Months

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The project's SpaceshipTwo, an aircraft built by aviation engineer Burt Rutan and designed to carry paying customers into suborbital space, had its maiden [...]

October 11, 2010

Private Spaceship Makes 1st Solo Glide Flight

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Virgin Galactic's space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo achieved its first solo glide flight Sunday, marking another step in the company's eventual plans to fly [...]

October 11, 2010

First Images Of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Cabin


28 Sep 2006 Joel Johnson and I were at a preview of Wired's Next Fest, and saw a little nose cone hiding behind a veil. We climbed back, and discovered [...]

October 11, 2010

Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo | International Space Fellowship


7 Dec 2009 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) and its mothership, WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) herald a new era in commercial space flight with daily space tourism flights set [...]

October 11, 2010

Welcome To Space Ship Two


SpaceShipTwo is a suborbital spaceplane currently under development by The Spacehip Company, a joint venture between Scaled Composites and Sir Richard [...]

October 11, 2010

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Completes First Manned Glide Flight ...


10 Oct 2010 The Virgin Galactic VSS Enterprise (SpaceShipTwo) today reached a new milestone: completing a manned free flight from over 45000 feet, [...]

October 12, 2010

Video: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Glide Flight | Autopia ...


11 Oct 2010 runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience631970082001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); After four captive carry flights attached [...]

October 11, 2010

THE SPACE SHIP TWO By VIRGIN FOUNDER RICHARD BRANSON WILL TAKE ...

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THE “SPACE SHIP TWO” by VIRGIN FOUNDER RICHARD BRANSON WILL TAKE YOU INTO SPACE FOR $200000 “…oohwee!!!” Here's a photo of the space ship from Richard Branson (Virgin founder) that will take you into space. The “SpaceShipTwo,” will [...]

October 11, 2010

SpaceShipTwo Glide Tests Imminent | Rocketeers

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Popular Mechanics magazine is reporting that the first free-flight glide tests of SpaceShipTwo are due to take place at Mojave Spaceport today. The spacecraft will be carried aloft by the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft to an altitude [...]

October 12, 2010

Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise Completes First Solo Glide Flight


It completed its first flight with a crew on board back in July, and Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise (a.k.a. SpaceShipTwo) has now crossed what's unquestionably its biggest hurdle to date: the first solo glide flight. That happened early Sunday morning at the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California, [...]

October 12, 2010

Branson's Virgin Galactic Completes First Solo Space Flight


Source: PC Mag - Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic on Sunday completed its first manned free flight of a spaceship intended to eventually take customers on commercial space flights. SpaceShipTwo, also known as the VSS Enterprise, was piloted by Pete Siebold and Mike Alsbury. Virgin Galactic was test [...]

October 11, 2010

CSF Congratulates SpaceShipTwo Team For Milestone First Glide ...

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Washington, D.C. – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is pleased to congratulate Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic, and the SpaceShipTwo team for successfully conducting today's first-ever glide flight of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital [...]

October 11, 2010

Dawn Of New Space Age


Private Spaceship makes first trip to the space. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo was carried aloft by its mothership to an altitude of 45,000 feet and released over the Mojave Desert,California. After the separation, SpaceShipTwo, manned by two pilots, flew freely for 11 minutes before landing at an [...]

October 12, 2010

Branson: Weve Done Thousands Of Rocket Tests On Ground


The Daily Mail reports Virgin Galactic Founder RichardBranson shed a bit of light on the most mysterious aspects of his space tourism project — the status of SpaceShipTwo’s engine: Sir Richard added: ‘The next big step will be the rocket tests actually on the spacecraft itself. We’ve obviously have [...]

October 12, 2010

Virgin's Space-Tourism Rocket Achieves First Solo Glide Flight ...


MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA – Virgin Galactic's space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo achieved its first solo glide flight Sunday, marking another step in the company's eventual plans to fly paying passengers. SpaceShipTwo was carried aloft by its [...]

October 11, 2010

Fred Langa: "What Comes Next?": Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo ...

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on Sunday, with an unpowered flight of SpaceShipTwo lasting about 11 minutes after the spacecraft was released from its White Knight Two mother ship, Eve, at 13700 meters (45000 feet) over the Mojave Desert. Scaled Composites test pilot [...]

October 12, 2010

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes First Solo Flight

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Commercial space travel has gotten one small step closer to reality, as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo completed its first manned free flight, closing from an altitude of 45,000 feet down to a successful landing at Virgin’s Mojave Air and Spaceport. The SpaceShipTwo, dubbed the VSS Enterprise, was piloted by Pete Siebold, with Mike Alsbury as co-pilot. [...]

October 11, 2010

The Problem Of Choice: Laptop Or Netbook?


With the advent of a new class of mobile Internet devices called netbooks, there was created a whole niche in the market, which is located between laptops and PDAs. It was the demand for such devices that determined the future of netbooks. The first swallow was the machine from Asus, which was calle [...]

October 11, 2010

Virgin Galactic 'Spaceship Two' 1st Solo Glide Flight Right Pundits

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You may have a chance soon as the Virgin Galactic Spaceship Two made it's 1st solo glide flight Sunday, 10/10/10. The manned test flight occurred over the Mojave Desert as the VSS Enterprise was released from 45000 feet by the White [...]


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