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more about #virgingalactic more comments → sinerasis: What's up with the hand mirror? more » strider_mt2k: Go Team Scaled Composites! more » Homerjay is utterly alone.: I wonder which one of those switches engages "Otto." more » CircuitMage: What's that white, stick-on counter in pic2? Looks like the toll meter in a taxi cab. more » Geisrud: I don't see a single cup holder. /sorely dissapointed more » N@tedog: There isn't even a door?!? It's like they're just inviting the first space terrorists aboard. more » Someone horked my name at engadget: Is that a Tom-Tom just to the right of the left-hand yoke? more » HerbertGaloolie: Is that a vanity mirror on the top right? more » bosskev: Toggle switches? Are you kidding me? You want to blast me into space in a contraption controlled by 89¢ Radio Shack toggle switches? Please. At leas... more » jepzilla: Wow, that's a much more complex cockpit than SS1. If you don't remember, SS1's cockpit was basically a joystick and a single LCD multifunction display. more » Curves: It looks like Far Point...... more » admoseremic: I think NASA's launch sites more fully qualify for this title. more » Hello Mister Walrus: So how long will it be before the first space sherry? Wow, the bad jokes keep coming today... more » laffmakr: What?! No Starbucks yet?! more » EBone: "First spaceport ever..." On Earth, that is. more » -
#airplanes
First Pictures of Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo Interior
We all know how Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo looks from the outside, but this is the first time ever you are going to see the cockpit of SpaceShipTwo's mothership. It looks like the old-style spaceship cockpits from Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon. More » -
#space
First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday
This newly-released image shows the sun rising over Spaceport America. It hasn't been built yet, but construction starts this Friday. It will be the beginning of the real future, the stuff dreams are made of.* More » -
#space
Virgin Galactic Rocket Blasts Off for the First Time
The hybrid Nitrous Oxide rocket that will take SpaceShipTwo to 65 miles above the Earth at 2500mph (YES!) has fired off for the first time in the southern California desert. Founder, adventurer and cool-guy-at-large Sir Richard Branson is happy: More » -
#space
Virgin Galactic's Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap
Warning, middle-class Earthmen. By the end of this post, your dreams of low-cost space travel will be delayed. Above: WhiteKnightTwo Eve's Maiden Flight. Photo Credit Schereer Scherer. More » -
#space
Video: Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo in Action
We all know the Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo can actually fly. Now, Wired has an exclusive video of the plane in action, further squashing any skepticism of the plane. More » -
#spacetourism
Sweden's Ice Hotel Charging $200,000 for Space Trips in 2012
So this Swedish destination, The Ice Hotel, has linked up with Virgin Galactic to begin selling space travel packages for about $200,000, beginning in 2012. Wilson says that's cheap. I say that's relative. More » -
#space
British Government to Launch Satellites Into Orbit on the Back of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo
Looks like the WhiteKnightTwo won't be all play after all, as the British government wants to use Virgin Galactic's spacecraft to send some state satellites into low orbit. More » -
#spacetourism
Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo Flies For the First Time
We saw ground tests last week, but yesterday morning WhiteKnightTwo—the funky-looking double-wide plane that will take SpaceShipTwo and its cargo of millionaires on suborbital spaceflights—finally took off on its maiden voyage. -
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#spacetourism
Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light
It becomes less and less a future fever dream every day: Spaceport America in Las Cruces, NM, Virgin Galactic's future home, has gotten FAA approval to begin construction. -
#space
Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo Performing Runway Tests
Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo, the ship that will deliver SpaceShipTwo into orbit, just started performing runway tests. We're one step closer to personal space travel, folks. -
#space
Virgin Galactic Turns Down $1 Million Offer to Make First Porn in Space
I've got some good news for those of you who hold the seriousness of space exploration dear, and bad news for those of you who like to watch videos of two people doin' it: someone wanted to make a porn in space, and Virgin Galactic said no. More »
