MOJAVE, California - British billionaire Richard Branson unveiled a commercial rocket plane that will allow tourists a chance to view the Earth and experience weightlessness from suborbital space. Branson said Monday that he hopes to offer tickets
This story was updated at 10 p.m. EST. MOJAVE, Calif. – It was pre-sold as an "out of this world premier" – and you can't get more off-world than Virgin Galactic's Monday unveiling of a spaceliner built to whisk customers to the edge of space. Space
MOJAVE, California - Richard Branson unveiled a commercial spaceliner offering tourists a cheaper chance to experience the thrill of weightlessness and view the splendor of the Earth from space. The British billionaire hopes to offer tickets aboard
LOS ANGELES - Richard Branson unveiled his Virgin Galactic spaceliner for tourists willing to pay 200,000 dollars a ticket Monday for a trip into the weightlessness of space in a craft designed to make the perilous return home like a giant shuttle
LOS ANGELES - A spacecraft designed to rocket wealthy tourists into space as early as 2011 was unveiled Monday in what backers of the venture hope will signal a new era in aviation history. The long-awaited glimpse of SpaceShipTwo marks the first pu
LOS ANGELES - After five years of secret construction, the cloak is coming off a privately funded spacecraft designed to fly well-heeled tourists into space. The long-awaited glimpse of SpaceShipTwo, slated for rollout Monday in the Mojave Desert, c
All is in readiness for next Monday's unveiling of SpaceShipTwo – the first-class space tourist's wonder machine at the core of the space tourism firm Virgin Galactic's suborbital fleet. The scene is spacecraft manufacturer Scaled Composites at the
MELBOURNE - Australian budget airline Virgin Blue defended its safety record Wednesday after a front wheel malfunctioned on landing, sending an aircraft veering across the runway. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said it was investigating the
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