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Jan 23 - Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic showed off models of a spaceship it hopes will take spacetravel mainstream. Trips will initially cost about $200,000 and will eventually go down in price. That's far less than the $20 million reported cost of businessman Dennis Tito's trip on a Russian spacecraft in 2001, considered the first space tourist. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2 animation: Get a taste for what space tourism will be like in 2008 when Virgin commercializes space flight. Video is not 100% complete but gives you a sense of the journey. For more on Virgin Galactic, see iinnovate's interview with Alex Tai, VP of Operations at www.iinnovatecast.co m
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Those stately galaxies we've long admired are not exactly what we thought. Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes you into the violent world of galactic predators.
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Millennium Records MNLP 8001
The B-Side to "Star Wars" but it's missing the first (of three) tracks, "Other" (becuase it would then go over 10 minutes) - I prefer this instrumental disco-funk track to the Star Wars disco theme. If you like funky percussion, you'll enjoy this as much as I do!
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Galactic perform their spectacular Immigrant Song/Everythang/Free style encore with Boots, Chali2na, Lifesavas, & Laid Law in Lake Tahoe, NV, 10/14/07.
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An animation by Virgin Galactic showing what flying into space onboard SS2 will be like.
It is likely that commercial flights will begin 2010 from the Spaceport America in New Mexico. Current ticket price is around £100,000 ($200,000)
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Wired's Michael Belfiore goes past Virgin's PR machine to assess the problems of Virgin Galactic's space venture. Pilot Brian Binnie and passengers talk risks and rewards.
