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Excitement Building in Mojave for First SpaceShipTwo Powered Flight
The countdown is on for the first powered SpaceShipTwo flight on Monday. And you can feel the excitement here in Mojave! It’s a mixture of anticipation, nerves and sweat (the last bit being from both...
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Video Caption: In Season 6 Episode 12 of Spacevidcast Live we take a look at all the NewSpace companies located in Mojave and what they are up to! Doug Messier of ParabolicArc.com walks us through...
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Public and Press Viewing Area for SpaceShipTwo Flight on Monday
Ah, this is a bit embarrassing. It looks as if I was a bit too hard on the Mojave Air and Space Port. The airport has set up a viewing area for the public and press who want to see the SpaceShipTwo...
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SpaceShipTwo Completes First Powered Flight
SpaceShipTwo just prior to landing. (Credit: Ken Brown) MOJAVE, Calif. (Virgin Galactic PR) – Today, Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group...
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Pictures of SpaceShipTwo’s First Powered Flight
SpaceShipTwo in its first powered flight over Mojave. (Credit: MarsScientific.com and Clay Center Observatory Boom camera shot. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) SpaceShipTwo in powered flight. (Credit: Virgin...
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Reserve Your SpaceShipTwo Seat Now — Big Price Increase Coming Soon
Sir Richard Branson and daughter, Holly, look through the window of a SpaceShipTwo shell. (Photo credit: Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic)Although Virgin Galactic has promised to eventually lower prices...
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SNC: Yeah, We Lit that Candle and it Worked, Baby!
SpaceShipTwo in its first powered flight over Mojave. Sparks, NV, April 29, 2013 (SNC PR) – Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems is proud to announce that its Hybrid Rocket Motor propelled...
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SpaceShipTwo Flight Test Summary
Credit: Ken Brown WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo Flight Test Summary Via Scaled Composites Flight: 115/PF01 Date: 29 Apr 13 SS 2 Flight Time: 13 min SS2 Pilot: Stucky SS2 Co-pilot: Alsbury WK2 Pilot:...
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Some More Thoughts on SpaceShipTwo’s Flight
Credit: Ken Brown A couple of brief notes on Monday’s SpaceShipTwo flight. There was a public and press viewing site set up along the Mojave Air and Space Port’s flight line that a provided a great...
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Space Florida Gets Budget Boost
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 6, 2013 (Space Florida PR) – State lawmakers have shown strong support for Florida’s aerospace industry in the 2013 Legislative Session by renewing Space Florida’s $10 million...
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Virgin Galactic Hires NASA Space Shuttle Vet, Private Jet Pilot
MOJAVE, Calif. (Virgin Galactic PR) – Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, announced today that pilots Frederick “CJ” Sturckow and Michael “Sooch” Masucci have been selected to...
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Space Tourism Flights from Abu Dhabi Possible Within Three Years
SpaceShipTwo in powered flight. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) Virgin Galactic’s Steve Landeene is over at the Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi this week, where he talked about the company’s...
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The Power of the Suborbital Experiments Market is Growing
SpaceShipTwo in its first powered flight over Mojave. By Douglas Messier Parabolic Arc Managing Editor Last week, I got to see close-up views of the power of the emerging suborbital space industry in...
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Branson Touts Environmentally Benign Rubber Burning Engine
SpaceShipTwo burning rubber — literally. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) While in Singapore for an environmental summit organized by the Carbon War Room charity he founded, Virgin Galactic Founder Richard...
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Richard Branson’s Christmas Wish: A Flight into Space
Credit: Twentieth Century Fox I was awaken early this morning by a great disturbance in the Force. It was as if hundreds of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced by the sound...
View ArticleVideo Interview with XCOR’s Doug Jones
Video Caption: If you’ve ever dreamed of soaring to the stars, liftoff may be coming sooner than you think. Just ask XCOR’s Chief Test Engineer Doug Jones, who has designed a commercial suborbital...
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Lynx and Rick Searfoss Save the World!
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and XCOR Chief Pilot Rick Searfoss examine a mockup of the Lynx. (Credit: XCOR) Via Clark Lindsey over at NewSpaceWatch, here’s the latest news from Hollywood: Cinipix, a...
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Interview with Winner of Lynx Space Tourism Flight
Editor’s Note: AEB — the Brazilian Space Agency — has published a Q&A with Pedro Henrique Doria Nehme, an agency trainees who recently won a trip to space aboard XCOR’s Lynx suborbital vehicle....
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s SpaceShipTwo Flight Raises $3.8 Million for AIDS Research
Vasily Klyukin, a 37-year-old Russian real estate mogul who lives in Monaco, will spend $1.5 million to take a flight into space alongside “Titanic” star Leonardo DiCaprio aboard Sir Richard Branson’s...
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