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NASA Will Use Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo To Experiment In The Stars

2:00AM October 18, 2011 | Adrian Covert

NASA’s space shuttle program may be kaput, but that doesn’t mean they’ve given up their space adventuring entirely: in the future, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo will house research missions for the government organisation. More »

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This Lucky Devil Is Virgin Galactic’s First Captain

1:29AM August 11, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

This is Dave MacKay, a 53-year-old pilot from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He has been selected to be the first captain of Virgin Galactic’s fleet of suborbital spaceships. He will fly the SpaceShipTwo when it launches in 2013. More »

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SpaceShipTwo First Manned Flight Attached To WhiteKnightTwo

12:20AM July 20, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

The day for the first solo flight of SpaceShipTwo – the first commercial suborbital tourism aircraft – is getting closer. Here, its crew is testing it for the first time. It’s still docked to its mothership – WhiteKnightTwo – but it’s a beautiful picture. [Autopia]

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Virgin Galactic Falls Far Short Of NASA

7:20AM May 15, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Most of us would kill to hitch a ride on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, but as this graphic will show you, compared to the ISS or the Space Shuttle, it flies relatively low – *just* 109km from the ground. [DVICE]

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Perhaps You’ll Visit Space In Your Lifetime, After All

6:40AM May 13, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Space Adventures is going to use an Armadillo Technologies rocket to launch amateur astronauts 100km into the sky. Nothing new, except that they will do it for half the price of Virgin Galactic’s ticket, and in a real rocket! More »

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The Beauty Of The Airborne Virgin Galactic’s Enterprise

8:40AM March 23, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

It has touched the blue sky for the first time: The VSS Enterprise – the first craft of the SpaceShipTwo class – was carried today into the air during its first captive carry flight from the Mojave Spaceport, carried by the White Knight II. It was a beautiful thing. More »

What Could Be More Suitable For A Space Ride Than Trance Music? Answer: Everything

9:30PM December 8, 2009 | Kat Hannaford

Here’s an idea—why don’t we round up every trance act and send them all into space? So we never have to hear that incessant doof doof noise any more. Let’s hope Richard Branson agrees. More »

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First Video Of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

7:30AM December 8, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

newVideoPlayer("/gizmodo-ss2.flv", 500, 375,""); Here you have SpaceShipTwo in video, from every single angle. More »

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First Images Of SpaceShipTwo

5:36AM December 8, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

The official unveiling is tonight, but we have the first images of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo now, attached to its mothership, Eve. This thing is so beautiful. More »

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What Is This?

4:33AM December 8, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Hey Richard Dreyfuss, better hurry up to the Mojave Desert, because tonight the aliens are coming. Seriously: More »