[extropy-chat] Virgin Galactic Plans

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Slashdot<http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/1752201&tid=160&tid=103&tid=187>:
*Space.com <http://Space.com> reports that the U.S. Department of State's 
Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has approved collaboration of 
technical details between Scaled Composites <http://www.scaled.com/> of 
Mojave, California and Virgin
Galactic<http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//www.virgingalactic.com/>of
the United Kingdom to build
passenger-carrying suborbital
spaceliners<http://www.space.com/news/050815_virgingalactic_itar.html>.
The next suborbital ship will be a nine person vessel."* From the
article: *"Details
about the new company were unveiled at the Experimental Aircraft 
Association's (EAA) AirVenture air show held July 25-31 in Oshkosh, 
Wisconsin. The Spaceship Company will build a fleet of commercial suborbital 
spaceships and launch aircraft. Scaled Composites is to be under contract 
for research and development testing, as well as certification of a 9-person 
SpaceShipTwo (SS2) design, and a White Knight Two (WK2) mothership to be 
called Eve.*
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