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  Meet Virgin Galactic’s First Astronaut

  11 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

  Dave MacKay, 53-year-old British pilot, will be the first captain of Virgin Galactic‘s commercial space fleet, taking up the role first with the maiden voyage of SpaceShipTwo, scheduled for 2013. MacKay has over 30 years of regular flying experience, but like pretty much everybody, he’s wanted to fly spaceships since he was a kid.

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• Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Test Flight [VIDEO]

  19 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

  Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, the commercial spaceflight vehicle, recently had its seventh test flight, dropped from a height of 15km to see if it could adjust speed and bearing with various wing configurations. Which sounds technically fancy, but really just looks insanely cool.

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• Virgin America Spices Up Opening Ceremony With Spaceships

  07 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

  Yesterday, Virgin America held an opening ceremony for their new Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport; press were ushered onto a waiting aircraft, and told to keep an eye out for Virgin-Galactic-related-things after takeoff. After about 20 minutes they were asked to look out of their windows, because White Knight 2 and Spaceship 2 were doing fly-byes.

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• Virgin Oceanic: Richard Branson Is Getting Into The Submarine Business

  06 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

  And business is good. See how I avoided the Beatles reference in the title? Sir Richard Branson, known for doing fancy things with money and vehicles, launched Virgin Oceanic, which aims to explore “the last frontiers of our own Blue Planet: the very bottom of our seas.”

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