Tests will continue on the VSS Enterprise until 2011, before the first commercial flights take place in the USA. As reported in an earlier edition of Arabian Aerospace there will eventually be space tourism flights from Abu Dhabi. (3/27) ….
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FLORIDA SPACErePORT: March 31, 2010
“Just to be able to see the curvature of the earth, the earth's atmosphere, the thin blue thin in which we live and breathe and of course the blackness of space — it's unbelievable,” he said, adding with pride: “I'm chuffed to bits!” … Launched from his back garden, the homemade contraption travels into the Earth's atmosphere where it takes some really cool pictures before the balloon eventually bursts and the camera is parachuted safely back to Earth, …
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The Discovery Enterprise: Amateur adventures in Near Space
President Obama recently threw open America’s space programme to private companies – announcing a 6% increase in NASA’s five-year budget to $100bn. After years of keeping space travel the strict preserve of government, private space groups will now be encouraged to … These industrial titans will race against each other to launch the first commercial space flights , in a rerun of the space race that caught the imagination of Americans and Russians during the Cold War
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Profit from the new space race – MoneyWeek
President Obama recently threw open America’s space programme to private companies – announcing a 6% increase in NASA’s five-year budget to $100bn. After years of keeping space travel the strict preserve of government, private space groups will now be encouraged to … These industrial titans will race against each other to launch the first commercial space flights , in a rerun of the space race that caught the imagination of Americans and Russians during the Cold War
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Profit from the new space race – MoneyWeek
Richard Branson of Virgin Galatic, www.virgingalactic.com christened WhiteKnightTwo, VMS Eve after Richard Branson’s mother, was revealed to the public for the first time in July 2008 and started its test flight program later that year. At the first roll-out in Mojave it was described as an aviation milestone and for good reason: it is the largest all carbon composite aviation vehicle ever built and the most fuel efficient of its size. It has a unique capability to carry heavy payload (around 35,0000lbs) to high altitude (around 50000ft) and a range of over 2000 nautical miles.
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Virgin Galatic Sir Richard Branson Burt Rutan
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