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2. Virgin Galactic - Wikipedia

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   Virgin Galactic was founded in 2004 by British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, who had previously founded the Virgin Group and the Virgin Atlantic airline, and who had a long personal history of balloon and surface record-breaking activities. As part of Branson's promotion of the firm, he has added a variation of the Virgin Galactic livery to ...

3. SpaceX Just Stole the Space Tourism Market From Virgin ...

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   A $10 million launch cost, divided by 100 space tourists, implied that SpaceX could one day be able to offer a per-ticket price of $100,000 and undercut prices being charged by both Virgin ...

4. Virgin Galactic Unity 22 - Wikipedia

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   The 11 July 2021 flight was the first time more than three people flew suborbitally on a spaceflight and the first time more than one passenger flew on a suborbital spaceflight, and Branson was the first founder of a spaceflight company to fly to space on his own company's craft, using the USAF/NASA definition of space as above 50 miles.

5. Inside Virgin Galactic's Private Space Club - AOL

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   The flight of VSS (Virgin Spaceship) Unity that Crane mentioned would take place on June 8. Called Galactic 07, it would be Unity’s seventh flight with paying space tourists (and its last ...

6. SpaceShipTwo - Wikipedia

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   By March 2011, Virgin Galactic had submitted SpaceShipTwo as a reusable launch vehicle for carrying research payloads in response to NASA's suborbital reusable launch vehicle (sRLV) solicitation, which was a part of the agency's Flight Opportunities Program. Virgin projected research flights might reach a peak altitude of 110 km (68 mi).

7. Virgin Galactic's first space tourists finally soar, an ... - AOL

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   Virgin Galactic rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists Thursday, a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean ...