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Virgin Galactic: We Don’t Anticipate Motion Sickness

May 2, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter When the spaceship Enterprise — Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, not the Star Trek spacecraft — fired its rocket engines for the first time in flight last week, it set off a new frenzy of talk about tourists flying in space. More than [...]

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SpaceShipTwo Fires Rocket Engines for First Ever Supersonic Test Flight- Photos & Video

April 29, 2013

In a momentous and long awaited day in spaceflight, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) commercial spaceliner named “Enterprise” lit up her hybrid rocket engines in flight and reached supersonic speeds for the first time in history, today, Monday, April 29, 2013 – in the skies over the Mojave Desert in California. “What a feeling to be [...]

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Virgin Galactic Announces New Satellite Launcher

July 11, 2012

Caption: Richard Branson at the Farnborough International Airshow showing a model of LauncherOne. Credit: Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic’s latest venture is launching small satellites with a new, more affordable launching system called LauncherOne. “The pieces are all in place to transform the business of satellite launch, which will open up space to everyone,” said the [...]

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Former Space Shuttle Manager Mike Moses Joins Virgin Galactic

October 11, 2011

One of the most respected members of NASA’s space shuttle program has joined Virgin Galactic as the commercial space company’s Vice President of Operations. Mike Moses, NASA’s former Space Shuttle Launch Integration Manager, will oversee the planning and execution of all operations at Virgin Galactic’s headquarters at Spaceport America in New Mexico. In a press [...]

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Video: Watch SpaceShipTwo’s First Feathered Flight

May 19, 2011

On May 4, 2011 Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo achieved a major milestone by flying for the first time using its “feathered” configuration, and the company has now released a close-up video of the flight. Feathering is designed to create drag and slow the ship down after it reenters the atmosphere from eventual suborbital flights taking tourists [...]

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