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Virgin Galactic unveils White Knight Two
Business, Food , Travel | July 28th 2008
Filed under: Airlines, News Virgin Galactic unveiled the White Knight Two, their delivery vehicle for SpaceShipTwo at their Mojave construction facility today, to glorious fanfare and celebration. White Knight Two is the second version of the moth read more
Indian troops for South Asian summit in Sri Lanka
Dhivehi Observer News - Maldives | June 29th 2008 by Dhivehi Observer
COLOMBO (AFP) — India is to send thousands of troops, war ships and helicopters to Sri Lanka as part of security for next month's South Asian summit in Colombo, diplomatic sources said Sunday.New Delhi is planning to send three war ships with a co read more
Space Adventures
My View and Opinion | June 19th 2008 by Arie Wijaya
Space Adventures, the broker of the first tourist flights to space celebrated its ten-year anniversary today here at the Explorer's Club in New York with the announcement that it had scored a deal with the Russian Federal Space Agency, or RKA, to buy read more
The first to have Sex in Space...
Total Fashions | June 16th 2008 by Francesca
We humans are an adventurous bunch. A while back we covered the mile high club and the ‘no-sex onboard’ story from Airbus, but that just wasn’t exciting enough for some. The soon-to-be commercial space flights....read more about Space Travel read more
Google co-founder Sergey Brin invests in ticket to space
news can affect you in the way you respond it | June 11th 2008
June 11, The GuardianThe Google co-founder Sergey Brin has invested in a US space tourism company and hopes to go into orbit himself within three years, according to a report today.The 34-year-old president of the web search giant has put £2.5m into read more
SpiceJet announces launch of cargo operations
India Travel News | May 13th 2008 by Md Mudassir Alam
NEW DELHI: Low cost airline SpiceJet Monday announced the launch of its cargo operations in the country. Initially, the service would cover eight major cities and would be expanded to all 18 destinations of the airline in the second quarter of the c read more
Emirates to put up a luxurious lounge at Mumbai airport
India Travel News | May 5th 2008 by Md Mudassir Alam
MUMBAI: Dubai government-owned Emirates Airline is set to put up a luxurious lounge within the premises of the Mumbai International Airport to cater to its premium travellers. "We have got 700 square metre space at the airport to cater to our first read more
Dubai firm becomes first to charter space flight
Space tourists - who they are? | May 3rd 2008 by Ruzil'
An unnamed Dubai-based company has become the first in the world to charter a space flight for its top management. 'I cannot reveal any details about the company or the deal, other than (saying that) the flight they chartered can take up to six p read more
Newson's Design Takes off
Design Trends | April 30th 2008
Feeling insufficiently challenged by designing bottle openers and dish racks Australian Industrial Designer Marc Newson has taken on the task of designing the Astrium leisure spacecraft with interiors The Astrium will take people into space for thre read more
Arab company charters space craft in world first
Space tourists - who they are? | April 25th 2008 by Ruzil'
A Dubai-based Arab company has become the first ever in the world to charter a space craft for its top management, ArabianBusiness.com can reveal. The company last week handed over $500,000 as a deposit to Virgin Galactic, to charter one of the read more
AirAsia's baggage fee
AhVoo... 2.0 | April 9th 2008 by AhVoo
Few days ago i received an email from AirAsia entitled "Pay for what you use". I didn't much really care as I think it should be some commercial newsletter.The next day, when I'm flipping over the newspaper, I found a small ad-box at the lower side o read more
Another Firm Joins the Commercial Space Race
Freakers Digest | Freakers Information Space | March 31st 2008 by aj is in
Xcor's Lynx, a mini-spaceship that seats two, is on track to be ready for test flights in two years. It is designed to fly to the edge of spaceThe race to become the first private company capable of launching paying customers into space got more crow read more
New Rocket Aims for Space Tourism Market
Freakers Digest | Freakers Information Space | March 27th 2008 by aj is in
Retired U.S. Airforce Col. Rick Searfoss, left, gestures toward Xcor Aerospace Chief Executive Officer Jeff Greason during a news conference Wednesday, March 26, 2008, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Xcor Lynx, a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbit read more
Question: What's High Tech About Branson?
Ask Jason Personal Tech | February 17th 2008 by Jason J Noble
No not Branson Missouri -- Sir Richard Branson! The English entrepreneur made his fortune in selling records, but now has his sites set on commercial space travel. His company, Virgin Galactic, is planning to offer sub-orbital and orbital spaceflight read more
Virgin Galactic offers space travel
Marketing in Tourism. Tourism Internet Marketing. Travel Bus… | January 28th 2008
Sir Richard, whose Virgin Galactic is one of several commercial enterprises competing in the nascent space tourism market, said SpaceShipTwo will start test flights later this year.Speaking at a launch at the American Museum of Natural History in Man read more
Spaceship 2 Is Here At Last
The AV Club Blog | January 25th 2008 by andy cochrane
Behold the first images of Spaceship Two and White Knight Two, the ships upon whose backs mankind will see the first commercial spaceflights, courtesy of Virgin. They expect to start test flights later this year- I LOVE that this is happening and ca read more
Public Space Flights Coming Soon
Odds Bodkins! | January 23rd 2008 by Tony Connor
I wonder if you have to go through immigration when you return? Technically you would have left the country, but you hadn't landed in another. Let's hope they offer air miles!Richard Branson has unveiled plans for commercial space flights - Virgin read more
Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShip Two model.
tech R I V E T | January 23rd 2008 by Greg O'Byrne
Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShip Two model. $200k per trip. What will be the rate of failure? What are you chances of getting blowed up? There are more than 200 people that have already signed up to fly on the SpaceShip Two. I wonder if Br read more
Virgin Galactic Unveils New Ship Designs
ScienceNewsBlog.com | January 23rd 2008
Virgin Galactic has released designs for its SpaceShipTwo and its carrier airplane, WhiteKnightTwo. They also released the following statement. The White Knight mothership carries the smaller SpaceShipTwo. Test flights will begin this summer. The read more
NASA Picks Finalists for Space Station Resupply Demonstrations
The universe, galaxy and space | January 20th 2008 by Arthur
This artist's illustration depicts the automated PlanetSpace Modular Cargo Carrier supply ship as it is attached to the International Space Station using the outpost's robotic arm. Inset: An ATK booster launches the cargo ship spaceward.Artist's conc read more
2008 Begins in Washington, DC
Bohova - Mel's Travel Blog | January 20th 2008
The year began with Chris working and me being too lazy to go up to his work at midnight to celebrate the new year. Probably a good thing, since there exist some embarrassing Chris pictures from that evening. On a good note. I was off more than a read more
Vital Risk
Where | January 7th 2008 by Brendan
The Ansari X Prize offered $10 million to whoever could pull off the first non-NASA manned space flight in the US. It worked, and Virgin (of Megastore fame) will soon be offering commercial space flights as a result. The X Prize's founder, Peter Di read more
Space Age Massage
Ramblings of a Rag-Tag Believer | November 29th 2007 by Earthmommy
Since outer space is the only place you can go to truly escape gravity, and since there aren’t yet commercial space flights available, where’s a weary soul with an aching back to go for a little relief? Well, what if you could go right to your ow read more
Rivals race for UAE launch space
Space tourists - who they are? | September 19th 2007 by Ruzil'
Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures eye Ras Al-Khaimah as potential base for suborbital tourism flightsRival space tourism ventures Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures could go head-to-head over plans to launch suborbital flights from the United Ar read more
Do you want to travel to space? 1st stop: Sarasota
Space tourists - who they are? | September 11th 2007 by Ruzil'
By SARA KENNEDYSARASOTA --A local travel agency is marketing an unusual product: trips to space.Ryan Hilton, co-owner of Admiral Travel Gallery of Sarasota and Lakewood Ranch, is among 47 exclusive agents worldwide selling Virgin Galactic's commercia read more
I Want To Fly...
Who's Yo Mama? | July 25th 2007 by Kuanyin Moi
Every now and then something fabulous will appear in my email which makes me drool. Such an invitation arrived this week, but unfortunately I won't be able to attend. Perhaps you will? If so, leave me a comment or email and tell me all about it. Here read more
Space Adventures Finalizes Contracts for Future ISS Space Tourist…
New Voyage News - Space Tourism News | July 18th 2007
Space Adventures, the world’s leading space experiences company, announced today that it has finalized contracts with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) for two commercial seats aboard upcoming flights of the Soyuz TMA s read more
Airbus A380 - Sydney
Hugo Brown Official | June 6th 2007
The Airbus Flew into Sydney Last Nite @7pm.The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engined airliner manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.). It is the largest passenger airliner in the world. It first flew on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France.[1] After read more
Sky is no limit for Pakistani spacewoman
Dharti Pakistan | March 22nd 2007
Namira Salim, set to become the first Pakistani female to travel into space, hopes her journey will encourage other Muslim women to reach for the stars. Salim is one of 100 space tourists who will board landmark commercial space flights being offered read more
Let's blogroll!
Dreams Into Lightning | March 18th 2007
Sand Gets In My Eyes has an eye-opening experience on a commercial flight:Flying is, after all, an equal rights activity: I pay for my little part of the plane, you pay for yours, and as long as your stuff doesn't encroach on my space or visa-versa, read more