Tag: Richard Branson
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Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin highlight small steps toward giant space leaps
Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, known as VSS Unity, is brought out from its hangar in Mojave, Calif. A portion of the plane’s WhiteKnightTwo mothership can be seen at the right edge of the frame. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) In the past few weeks, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space venture and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin…
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Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson ribs space billionaires amid Blue Origin buzz
Richard Branson says he’s in a friendly rivalry with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture may have done another flight test, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making waves with its rocket progress – but don’t forget about Richard Branson. “Our spaceship comes back and lands on wheels. Theirs…
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Stephen Hawking will help Virgin Galactic roll out second SpaceShipTwo on Feb. 19
British physicist Stephen Hawking addresses Virgin Galactic customers at Cambridge University. (Credit: Richard Branson via YouTube) More than a year after the first SpaceShipTwo rocket plane was destroyed in a fatal test flight, Virgin Galactic says the second SpaceShipTwo is ready for its California rollout on Feb. 19 – and famed British physicist Stephen Hawking is invited.…
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Billionaire Space Club pits Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson vs. Paul Allen and more
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (in hat and sunglasses) pops open a bottle of champagne after Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket landing in November. (Credit: Blue Origin) When Jeff Bezos welcomed SpaceX to the rocket landing “club” last week, it set off a round of twittering over whether Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and fellow billionaire…
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Branson vows to press ahead, NTSB investigation begins
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Updated at 12:10 AM EDT, 11/02/14: Adding NTSB news conference; identity of surviving pilot Virgin Galactic’s George Whiteside and Richard Branson speak with the news media. Image: Virgin Galactic. Richard Branson, the charismatic leader of Virgin Galactic and a driving force in the push to commercialize…
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Asteroid miners raise $1.5M for public space telescope, name Richard Branson as investor
Planetary Resources’ Kickstarter campaign started one month ago with some help from Brent Spiner, ended this past weekend with $100,000 from Sir Richard Branson and raised a nice chunk of change from more than 17,000 backers during the process itself. The Bellevue asteroid-mining company just finished one of the top-25 most successful campaigns in Kickstarter history, raising $1,505,366…
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Bill Nye and Star Trek’s ‘Data’ helping asteroid miners with ‘unprecedented’ new project
Planetary Resources is on a mission to mine near-earth asteroids and now they want you to join in on the fun, too. The Bellevue-based asteroid-mining company backed by some of the biggest names in technology and aerospace will hold a press conference this Wednesday to announce a new, “unprecedented project” intended to give the public access to its advanced space…