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3-2-1 ... and Liftoff: Manned Space Flights Mark 50th Anniversary

"Three ... 2 ... 1 ...ignition ... and liftoff." With those famous words first heard in Russian and then English, rocket engines burst into life, sending manned vehicles through the extreme "g" forces of vertical acceleration into Earth orbit and into the history books. On this date 20 years apart, two milestones were...

Capt. Kirk Wakes Up Space Shuttle Discovery Crew [VIDEO]

It was a perfect blending of science fact and fiction. As the crew of the space shuttle Discovery wiped the dust from their eyes Monday morning, preparing to undock from the International Space Station, they were awakened by a special message from Capt. James T. Kirk, aka William Shatner. With the original 1960s "Star...

Mega Millions Jackpot: Stuff to Buy With $355 Million

Most lottery tickets are good for five minutes of daydreaming. But a couple of lucky lottery players find themselves millions of dollars richer today, after the Mega Millions' organizers announced that two winning tickets to Tuesday's $355 million drawing were sold in Idaho and Washington state. The two winners matched...

Commercial Spaceship Takes First Flight [VIDEO]

(Oct. 11) -- Humanity moved one step closer to making sci-fi reality on Sunday with the successful testing of Virgin Galactic's suborbital commercial spaceship, the VSS Enterprise. The aircraft is designed to take tourists on short trips to space for a small fee of $200,000. The Richard Branson-owned company has already...

Get Ready for Zero-Gravity Fun at Russian Space Hotel

(Oct. 1) -- After a difficult journey into space, the last thing you want to worry about is finding a hotel room. Ever since U.S. businessman and millionaire Dennis Tito took his own space odyssey in 2001 and became the world's first space tourist by traveling to the International Space Station, public interest in the...

Virgin Galactic News From the Web

05/24/12 Some Stuff is Going On Source: Evolving Excellence I've been collecting a variety of articles I found interesting with the intention to bloviate about them.
04/12/12 The joke is on your competitors Source: Trinidad Guardian Last week Virgin announced the launch of a "ground-breaking" new businessâground-breaking because it would be dedicated to journeying into the core of an active volcano.

Background on Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic is a company within Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to space tourists, suborbital launches for space science missions and orbital launches of small satellites.

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