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Articles tagged “virgin galactic”

Airlines

Space tourism risks and realities confronted at Montreal meeting

Space tourism might realistically mean entering space to go from Paris to Tokyo in two hours instead of spending a week on Mars, but even such a modest goal is decades and a few accidental deaths away.

Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo thrusts engines: Suborbital travel one step closer

Nothing quite captures the imagination like space, and when you throw Branson into the mix too it'll be hard to dampen the enthusiasm once flights start.

Associated Press | 11 years ago

Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo thrusts engines: Suborbital travel one step closer

Tourism

Virgin Galactic space ship completes its 24th test flight in Mojave desert

Branson's space ambitions are one step closer now. You have to hand it to him for bringing the common man -- albeit one with hundreds of thousands of dollars -- one step closer to space travel.

Steven Mayer, The Bakersfield Californian | 11 years ago

Virgin Galactic space ship completes its 24th test flight in Mojave desert

Airlines

Branson protests paying rent for his Virgin Galactic spaceport

Is the once-bullish Branson having second thoughts on his $1 million annual rent obligation as the launch of space tourism drifts farther into the future?

Jeri Clausing, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Branson protests paying rent for his Virgin Galactic spaceport

Online Travel

Virgin Galactic competes with scrappy startup XCOR to take the first tourist to outer space

Neither company will likely make their goal of launching in 2014, but rather than spend millions on a spaceport, Branson would be wiser to look into acquiring the rocket scientists running XCOR.

Skift | 11 years ago

Tourism

Virgin Galactic threatens to cancel contract with U.S. spaceport over liability protection

As the only company considering space tourism seriously enough to sign a 20-year lease with a monthly rent of $84,000, Virgin holds all the cards in negotiations with the New Mexican terminal.

Edward Helmore, The Guardian | 11 years ago

Virgin Galactic threatens to cancel contract with U.S. spaceport over liability protection