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

[Zero Powers]

Looks like they're going with Rutan:

Virgin Astronauts in Space (The Final Frontier Monday)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/space/0,2697,65098,00.html/wn_ascii

The designer of the SpaceShipOne vessel, which cracked the barrier to
manned commercial space flight earlier this year, signs a deal with
Virgin Airways' Richard Branson to build more spacecraft based on that
design

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:06:08 -0700 (PDT), Adrian Tymes
<wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> --- 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...
> 
> 
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