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We're a step closer to space tourism with first manned space flight

Monday, October 11, 2010 - 10:15am

Two milestones in space tourism were made yesterday: the clean release of the VSS Enterprise, formerly known as the SpaceShipTwo, from its mothership, and for the pilots to fly and land the spaceship back at Mojave Air and Space Port.

Virgin Galactic completes maiden voyage, brings space tourism even closer

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 9:46am

Just think: in your lifetime, you may be able to pay a visit to space without having to be a NASA-trained astronaut. Admittedly, you may have to be a little rich. Our best hope for busting open the frontier of...

Virgin developing 'underwater plane' for its private island

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 4:10pm

Virgin CEO Richard Branson may have his own airline and a space tourism company, but there's still one frontier yet to explore: the depths of the Caribbean Sea. And that's exactly where the British mogul's new craft, the Nymph, will...

Galactic Suites space hotel is on course for a 2012 debut

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 1:46pm

Come 2012 (you know, providing the world doesn't end) you may have another venue for booking a luxury hotel: space. That's the hope of the Barcelona-based architects behind the Galactic Suites, anyway, who say that they are on track with...

WhiteKnight Two makes its first public appearance

DVICE Staff

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 2:08am

Residents of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, might have been forgiven for thinking there was some close formation flying going on above their heads yesterday. It was actually WhiteKnightTwo, the launch craft for Richard Branson's commercial space venture, being unveiled to the public...

Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo unveiled

Monday, July 28, 2008 - 10:51am

Earlier this year, Virgin Galactic space pioneers Richard Branson and Burt Rutan showed us a model of WhiteKnightTwo, the workhorse aircraft that will launch SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space. Today in the Mojave desert north of Los Angeles, the space...

DVICE TV: Ticket to the Final Frontier

DVICE Staff

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 2:19pm

Want to go to space? As we told you last week, that'll cost you $200,000. But maybe there's a back door.

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We're a step closer to space tourism with first manned space flight

Virgin Galactic completes maiden voyage, brings space tourism even closer

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WhiteKnight Two makes its first public appearance

Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo unveiled

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