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Virgin Galactic partners with Aurora to build new motherships
San Francisco: Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic partnered with Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, to design and manufacture its next generation motherships. The mothership is the air launch carrier aircraft in…
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Virgin Galactic announces winner free trip to suborbital space
Washington: Richard Branson’s space venture Virgin Galactic and the charity fundraising platform Omaze announced a mother and daughter duo from Caribbean as winners of a free trip to suborbital space. Keisha S.,…
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Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales, charges $450K per seat
Washington: Richard Branson’s space tourism firm Virgin Galactic has reopened ticket sales for its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, the media reported. The price starts at $450,000 per seat, The Verge reported on Thursday. The…
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‘Best day ever’: Bezos after first unpiloted suborbital flight
New Delhi: World’s richest man Jeff Bezos has landed back on Earth after successfully completing the first-ever upiloted suborbital flight that made history with the youngest and oldest person to space. Bezos…
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Bezos attempts history with flight to edge of space
New Delhi: World’s richest man Jeff Bezos launched to the edge of space on Tuesday along with his brother Mark, 82-year-old female aviator Wally Funk and 18-year-old physics student Oliver Daemen, aboard…
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Jeff Bezos travels from selling books to Space and everything beyond
M Somasekhar Hyderabad: From selling books online at attractive prices on Amazon Inc to auctioning tickets to space at ‘sky rocket’ prices through Blue Origin, the journey of Jeff Bezos is all…
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Bezos’ Blue Origin gets OK to send him, 3 others to space
Cape Canaveral: Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has gotten government approval to launch people into space, himself included. The Amazon founder will climb atop his New Shepard rocket next Tuesday in West Texas,…
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Musk buys a $250K ticket to ride on Branson’s space flight
San Francisco: SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who claims to be living in a modest $50,000, 37-square-metre prefab guest house in Boca Chica, Texas, has bought a $250,000 ticket to space…
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‘Incredible to see Earth from space’: Sirisha Bandla on ‘life-changing’ trip
Houston: Indian-American astronaut Sirisha Bandla says it was an incredible” and a “life-changing” experience to see the Earth from space during her maiden trip on Virgin Galactic’s first fully-crewed suborbital test flight…
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Billionaire Richard Branson reaches space in his own ship
Truth or Consequences: Swashbuckling entrepreneur Richard Branson hurtled into space aboard his own winged rocket ship Sunday in his boldest adventure yet, beating out fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos. The nearly 71-year-old Branson…
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Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson flying own rocket to space
Truth or Consequences: After a lifetime of yearning to fly in space, Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson was poised to blast off aboard his own rocket ship Sunday in his boldest, grandest adventure yet.…
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Telugu woman in 6-member crew of Virgin Group’s test rocket flight
Hyderabad: In a rare instance of pride, a Telugu woman is all set to take a journey to outer space as Virgin Group’s space mission is to take off in less than…
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Richard Branson announces trip to space, ahead of Jeff Bezos
Cape Canaveral: Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson is aiming to beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos into space by nine days. Branson’s company announced Thursday evening that its next test flight will be July…
