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Virgin Galactic Heading To New Mexico
Is Richard Branson taking Virgin
Galactic to New Mexico? Space.com says that
Branson, who at practically every personal appearance loves to talk space, is working with New Mexico Governor Bill
Richardson to iron out the details. In September, ...
Virgin Galactic Reveals Spaceship Designs
Sir Richard Branson is so excited about the design for the Virgin Galactic spaceship designs he's willing to wear them. Yesterday, Branson recently showed off the design of Virgin Galactic's new space launch system based on the X Prize-winning ...
Virgin Galactic and the 40th Anniversary of That Other Moonwalk
The untimely death of Michael Jackson has adults of a certain generation remembering the days of the moonwalk craze. But for those with a few more candles to blow out on the birthday cake, the term "moonwalk" conjures up the name of a different ...
F1 Drivers Line Up for Virgin Galactic Space Flight
You'd figure that after winning grands prix and driving the fastest cars on the planet, an accomplished F1 driver would have had his fill of extreme Gs and rapid acceleration, but these are speed junkies, and they're always looking for a new ...
Space Hotel To Open In 2012
Will space tourism stays be possible in just a couple of years? A Spanish company has said that their Galactic Suite Space Resort orbiting hotel will open in 2012. The company is offering a three-night stay for €3 million. It sounds exorbitant ...
Elegant Resorts Offers Space Flights
With the plans for Virgin Galactic proceeding full steam, tourists are lining up for commercial sub-orbital spaceflights. Elegant Resorts has announced that they are the official "space agent" in Russia, CIS and the UK. Some of the staff from ...
Abu Dhabi Sheikh Invests In Branson's Space Tourism Project
Last time I wrote about Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan he was flying horses to Abu Dhabi. He's in the news again with a big purchase. The Telegraph reports that he has bought a 32 percent stake in Richard Branson's space tourism project, Virgin ...
More On The New Mexico Spaceport: The Starck Factor
A few days ago we mentioned Virgin Galactic's move to New
Mexico. The official details were revealed in a press conference in England,
reports Space.com. Sir Richard Branson will build a
$22 million spaceport and they are building five ...
Ice Hotel To Sell Space Flight Tickets
Those whose taste runs to the exotic might be tempted to check out the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. The hotel already offers dog sled and snowmobile safaris but it will now sell space flights. Virgin Galactic will be offering trips from ...
Jeff Bezos Has Super Secret Space Plans
I'd been sucked in by Richard Branson's dog-and-pony show
regarding Virgin Galactic but meanwhile Amazon.com founder Jeff
Bezos has been planning his own space lair for his aerospace company, Blue Origin. According to this AP story, Bezos recently ...
Plans For Spaceport America Revealed
We first heard about the plans for Virgin Galactic and Spaceport America back in December 2005. The home base for space travel promises to bring space tourism to the New Mexico desert. Now the team of US and British architects and designers working ...
XCOR Aerospace Offers Space Flight At A Discount
The first entrant into any marketplace has the benefit of being able to set the price for the service and those that follow often need to offer a lower price. That's the case in the space tourism game, now that XCOR Aerospace is offering tickets for ...
Branson Forms The Spaceship Company
Sir Richard Branson is really serious
about the future of space tourism. Branson and Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites have announced the formation of a new
aerospace production company to build a fleet of commercial sub-orbital spaceships and ...
Marc Newson's Designs For The Astrium Space Jet
Richard Branson may have Philippe Starck in his corner for his Virgin Galactic space plans but the folks at EADS Astrium have another world-dominating designer for their new space plane on their team: Marc Newson. Newson's designs for the spaceplane ...
Neiman Marcus Christmas Book 2006
The Neiman Marcus 2006 Christmas book has been released. It's 101 pages of holiday shopping but it's really on those last pages, the Fantasy Gifts that we rush to see each year. Last year's book offered a chance to buy the Skycar, an adult treehouse ...
