[extropy-chat] Now Virgin to offer trips to space

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com> wrote:
> >From CNN: British entrepreneur Richard Branson has
> announced his
> company has signed a deal to offer the world's first
> commercial
> flights to space under the branding "Virgin
> Galactic." He told the
> news conference: "We hope to create thousands of
> astronauts over the
> next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing
> the majestic
> beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all
> their glory and the
> amazing sensation of weightlessness."
>
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/27/branson.space/

What really matters is whether they have any
spacecraft.  Checking the story, they appear to be
intending to get some from Mojave Aerospace Ventures,
which in turn is owned by Paul Allen and is trying to
license tech from Scaled Composites.

I was wondering if anyone was going to take their
tech to production...