Tag: richard branson
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#MorningMonarchy: March 28, 2017
Strange times, solar radiation management and orbiting colonies + this day in history w/Three Mile Island and our song of the day by Thievery Corporation on your Morning Monarchy for March 28, 2017.
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Branson Determined to Find Cause of #Virgin Spaceship Crash
from reuters.com: Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said on Saturday he was determined to find out what caused a passenger spaceship being developed by his space tourism company to crash during a test flight in California, killing one pilot and injuring the other. Branson arrived in California’s Mojave Desert to meet his Virgin Galactic team and…
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Lady Gaga to Sing on Virgin Galactic Rocket Ride
from space.com: Lady Gaga is planning to fly to space. The famed 27-year-old pop singer is scheduled to blast off on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in early 2015, according to press reports. Gaga will reportedly sing one song during her trip into suborbital space. “She has to do a month of vocal training because of the…
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Virgin Galactic Closing in on Commercial Spaceflight
Universe Today informs, “SpaceShipTwo Fires Rocket Engines for First Ever Supersonic Test Flight.” “The test flight began at about 7:02 a.m. local California time as SpaceShipTwo took off from Mojave strapped to the belly of the WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) mothership. S2 was released from the mothership at an altitude of 47,000 feet (14 km) some 45…