Mini Concorde is backed by Richard Branson
This is ‘Baby Boom,’ the XB-1 supersonic demonstrator prototype, a subscale of the Boom passenger aircraft.
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SpaceShipTwo – The show Must go on!
SpaceShipTwo explodes in fireball during test flight before crashing in the Mojave Desert in California. California Highway Patrol reports 1 fatality, 1 major injury after
Northrop Grumman developing XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane
Northrop Grumman with Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, developing XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane design for DARPA, shown here in an artist’s concept.
Huge balloons can take you to the edge of space
Huge balloons will take you to the edge of space, to view the curvature of Earth below, at the third of the cost of Virgin
SpaceShipTwo breaks the Sound barrier
A giant leap for space tourism: SpaceShipTwo breaks the sound barrier, by hitting a maximum velocity of Mach 1.4, after reaching the altitude at 71,000
SpaceShipTwo Aadvances towards Powered Flight
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in a spectacular flight, saw oxidizer flow through the craft’s propulsion system, known as a “Cold Flow” procedure. Image © MarsScientific.com and
XGV-A Orbiter
In the near future, with Virgin Galactic leading the way, the aerospace industry will have new launch systems for the future spacecrafts as an alternative
Playboy Club in space
Following Virgin Galactic’s space tourism lead, the Playboy March issue features paintings by Thomas Tenery imagining how a Playboy Club might look in space.
Stratolaunch Systems will launch Rockets into Orbit
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul G. Allen announced today that he and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan have reunited to develop the next generation of space travel.
World’s first Commercial Spaceport is almost completed
Phase one of the world’s first commercial spaceport, which will be the hub for Virgin’s consumer spaceflights, is now 90 per cent complete.
