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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 20:26

Watch video of unveiling of Virgin Space Ship Enterprise

The official rolling out ceremony of Virgin SpaceShip (VSS) Enterprise occurred on Monday, December 7, 2009 at the Mojave Spaceport in California, United States. Watch the video of the historic event in space tourism.

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Sunday, 06 December 2009 20:45

SpaceShipTwo is ready for its Virgin rollout

Virgin Galactic will formally unveil its new SpaceShipTwo spacecraft on Monday afternoon, December 7, 2009, at the Mojave Spaceport in California, as one of the important steps toward eventually providing suborbital space flights for paying customers.

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Sunday, 21 June 2009 18:21

Welcome to 21st century for world's first commercial spaceport!

In New Mexico, the world’s first facility, which will be used exclusively to send paying customers into space, has broken ground in the remote desert. While the project is expensive, the costs of each space trip are still quite pricey, too!

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Wednesday, 04 February 2009 23:31

Virgin Blue goes where Frequent Flyers have not gone before

Win a round-trip ticket into space onboard one of Virgin Galactic’s private fleet of spacecraft. The contest by Australia’s Virgin Blue, and co-sponsored by U.S.A.’s Mojave Aerospace Ventures, will award twenty-five million frequent flyer miles to one lucky space traveler.

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Monday, 22 December 2008 20:14

Space tourism gets off the ground: WhiteKnight2

The WhiteKnightTwo airship made its first test flight on Sunday, December 21, 2008, as it flew about 59 minutes above the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, U.S.A.

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Saturday, 20 December 2008 20:44

First "spaceport" gets FAA approval in U.S.

Spaceport America, in New Mexico, has been granted a license for vertical and horizontal launches from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The facility will initially provide suborbital space flights for paying customers and other payloads.

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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 21:33

Lord British takes crowning step onto space station

International space tourist and Texas video game billionaire Richard Garriott has made the International Space Station his kingdom for the next ten days, and for a mere US $30 million.
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Sunday, 12 October 2008 15:17

World's first 'œ2nd-gen' astronaut and games pioneer lifts off to ISS!

Richard Garriott, son of Owen Garriot, a US Shuttle and Skylab astronaut, and co-founder of gaming company Origin Systems, is the world’s sixth space tourist, the world’s first second-generation astronaut and the first to truly make the US $30m flight a commercial venture that could eventually pay for itself.

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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 18:34

Norton enters the space race. No, really!

We know that competition in the security software market is intense, and marketing can make all the difference. But usually promotional tools run to the chance to win a free copy of the latest software, or maybe a PC to run it on. Symantec, however, is offering to send someone into space...

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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 06:06

Simonyi schedules second space sortie

Former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi is planning a second trip into space.
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Saturday, 02 August 2008 20:28

FAA official says space tourism risky, Virgin Galactic prez says not so

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration warned at the end of July 2008 that civil companies, such as Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, who are pioneering the first sub-orbital flights as part of the fledgling space tourism industry have extraordinary risks in their endeavors. Virgin Galactic says it will be thousands of times safer than any previous human spaceflights.
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Monday, 28 July 2008 19:47

Virgin Galactic shows off mothership 'œEVE'

On Monday, July 28, 2008, Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan unveiled for the first time their new WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier aircraft that will transport everyday space travelers inside SpaceShipTwo on suborbital space flights.

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Friday, 04 July 2008 03:54

U.S. Space Adventures to charter entire Russian Soyuz mission to Space Station

In a momentous advancement for space tourism, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RSA) has joined forces with U.S. space broker company Space Adventures (SA) to send two wealthy space tourists to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in the second-half of 2011.

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Thursday, 15 May 2008 09:19

Space, Australia's final frontier - Andy's right!

Andy Thomas, Australia’s very first man in space, has implored PM  Kevin Rudd to thrust Australia into the space race. Andy says it’s vastly more affordable than before and Australia’s children should get serious about science and technology. Is he right?

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Monday, 14 April 2008 18:28

South Australia, Victoria possible hosts to Virgin Galactic space venture

Virgin founder and entrepreneurial billion Richard Branson is considering the two Australian states of South Australia and Victoria as possible spaceports for his space tourism business.
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 21:24

XCOR Lynx prepares to rocket customers into space

Beginning in 2010, the California-based company expects to transport paying customers into a 38-mile suborbital flight to experience weightlessness and “to see the stars above and the Earth and its atmosphere below.”
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 10:26

UK schoolkids get space experiment opportunity

Primary school students in the UK have the opportunity to design a science experiment to be carried out on the International Space Station.
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Saturday, 27 October 2007 18:33

2007 Wirefly X PRIZE Cup: "Earth's Great Space Exposition"

Wirefly.com, along with the X PRIZE Foundation, and the state of New Mexico, is sponsoring the annual event, which is being held on October 26-28, 2007, in order to promote innovation of space technology in the private sector.      
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 21:07

China wants to help with Space Station

Chinese vice minister of science and technology Li Xueyong stated that China would like to participate with the International Space Station.         
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 20:05

Soyuz TMA-11 heading for International Space Station after launch

Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and Malaysian space flight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor were successfully launched on their Expedition 16 mission to the space station.            
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