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For Virgin Galactic, becoming profitable means a pause in flying to space: Virgin Galactic has just one more flight planned for its only operational spaceship.
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The Natter Bachem Ba 349 - Hitler's Suicide Interceptor: The Nazis wanted to use the fighter emergency program to drive away the Allied bombers ...
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Piece Falls From Virgin Galactic’s Mothership During Latest Suborbital Flight: The company is investigating the incident but claims the wayward object didn't ...
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12 of the wildest X-planes ever made: Experimental X-planes are still helping human pushing the boundaries of flight
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12 of the wildest X-planes ever made: Experimental X-planes are still helping human pushing the boundaries of flight
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🚀 Space Business: Secretive spacecraft: Plus: Gas plumes on the Saturn moon Enceladus contain molecules that could be key to creating life
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🚀 Space Business: Secretive spacecraft: Plus: Gas plumes on the Saturn moon Enceladus contain molecules that could be key to creating life
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The Soviet era’s fastest plane: the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25: The MiG-25 Foxbat was a high-performance Soviet interceptor aircraft designed in the 1960s ...
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The SR-71 Blackbird: unveiling the fastest plane ever built: Discover the SR-71 Blackbird, an extraordinary long-range, high-altitude strategic reconnaissance ...
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Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space
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Quick Glance: Virgin Galactic's First Space Tourist Flight
- Virgin Galactic reached the boundary of space with its inaugural flight for space tourists - a former British Olympian and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean.
- Virgin Galactic successfully launched its first space flight with paying passengers.
- The spacecraft reached an altitude of 88km.
- In contrast to Virgin Galactic's plane-launched rocket ship, the capsules used by SpaceX and Blue Origin are fully automated and land with a parachute.
Virgin Galactic takes off with its first tourists on flight to the edge of space: TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico (AP) — Virgin Galactic is taking its first ...
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Virgin Galactic launch live blog: Updates from Galactic 02 space flight: Virgin Galactic's first space flight with paying customers will launch Thursday ...
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Quick Glance: Virgin Galactic Takes Tourists to Space's Edge
- Virgin Galactic launched three tourists to the edge of space using its air-launched spacecraft, VSS Unity.
- This was the company's second commercial mission and the start of routine flights.
- VSS Unity was dropped from a carrier plane over New Mexico and reached an altitude of approximately 88.51 km.
- This mission marks the beginning of regular flights for Virgin Galactic.
GOING GALACTIC: Ride along with the three-man crew on a Virgin Galactic rocket plane for the company's first flight of paying customers to the edge of space ... Show more trib.al/gK7vZE8
Quick Glance: Virgin Galactic: Richard Branson's Rocket Plane in Commercial Service
- Sir Richard will now send up the approximately 800 individuals who have bought tickets to ride on Unity.
- The pace won't improve until Virgin Galactic introduces a new class of rocket planes expected to make their commercial debut in 2026.
- Their introduction will be vital for Virgin Galactic to become profitable.
- It wasn't until December 2018 that Virgin Galactic got the successor, Unity, above 80km - the altitude considered as "outer space" by some organizations.
Virgin Galactic rocket plane carried aloft for commercial launch to space: Three Italians are part of the six-man crew to make the 80km journey ...
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A three-man crew from Italy soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard a Virgin Galactic rocket plane, the company's first flight of paying ... Show more reut.rs/3XurtML
Virgin's space plane takes off with first customers: The 90-minute mission was purchased for the Italian Air Force and the Italian National Research Council ...
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A three-man crew from Italy soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard a Virgin Galactic rocket plane, the company's first flight of paying ... Show more
Top 10 fastest planes in the world 2023: Want to fly in speed and style? Then take a look at our list of the fastest passenger planes in the world.
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🚀Space Business: Array of Light: Is space solar power finally ready for prime time?
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Virgin Galactic sets dates for first space tourism flights – and they cost €411,000 a seat
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Sonic boom heard over Washington is a rare sound with a rich history: NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — People living in and around the nation’s capital experienced a rare ...
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Virgin Galactic sends astronauts briefly into space: The space plane provided great views and a few minutes of weightlessness. Virgin Galactic says it hopes to ...
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Virgin Orbit's bankruptcy has stranded Spaceport Cornwall and put pressure on Virgin Galactic
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Traffic 'gridlocked' as spectators flock to Cosmic Girl launch: Police have blocked roads as people arrive in droves to see the historic launch
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Israeli fighter jets have launched several air attacks in the blockaded Gaza Strip, leading to a power outage in some areas ... Show more https://aje.io/kzofj8
Startups and NASA working to return passenger supersonic flights to the sky - 60 Minutes
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Reusable hypersonic rocket sled recovered after Mach 5+ run: For the first time, the US Air Force has successfully recovered a reusable rocket sled traveling at ...
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1960 United States Air Force Review Has Footage Of The X-15: This 1960 United States Air Force Review Has Footage Of The X-15, Joe Kittinger's jump ...
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