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What Could Be More Suitable for a Space Ride Than Trance Music? Answer: Everything

Here’s an idea—why don’t we round up every trance act and send them all into space? So we never have to hear that incessant doof doof noise any more. Let’s hope Richard Branson agrees. Trance “act” Above & Beyond DJed in the Mojave desert yesterday for Branson’s SpaceShipTwo event, and are so desperate to see…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford Dec 8

First Video of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

Here you have Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in shiny shiny video action, from every single angle. As a bonus: Enjoy Sir Richard Branson with his blonde wig—come on, nobody can have such perfect hair, and be so dashing—and the legendary Burt Rutan and his even-more-legendary muttonchops. These guys, my friends, are making history right now. And…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Dec 7

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. Will Whitehorn has worked at Virgin for 22 years. Before he ran Galactic, which he named, he did search and rescue for Sir Richard Branson‘s world-record-attempt balloon flights,…

Space & Spaceflight Brian Lam May 5

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. https://gizmodo.com/virgin-galactics-whiteknighttwo-performing-runway-tests-5110215 The flight lasted just under an hour, and apparently all went according to plan. You can see some brief in-flight videos at Flightglobal.…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney Dec 22

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. The design has been set since September 2007, but now that an environmental impact assessment has been passed, construction can now begin. Branson is banking on the…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney Dec 18

Virgin Galactic’s White Knight, Branson, Rutan and Spaceman Buzz Captured on Vid

Click to viewVirgin Galactic’s White Knight aircraft is pretty exciting. And here’s a video that BoingBoingTV made of the aircraft’s launch event, that has some interesting words on the craft and space travel from Sir Richard Branson, Scaled Composite’s Burt Rutan and genuine spaceman and moonwalker, Buzz Aldrin himself. The best line? One that very…

Space & Spaceflight Kit Eaton Aug 6

Enter the Virgin Mothership

Say what you will about Sir Richard Branson — at least he uses his billions to help other people have fun, not just himself. That’s the quality that makes him the prime funder behind space tourism, a brand new phenomenon that will let regular folk head to the stars for the first time. Well, regular…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Jul 31

Why Virgins And Superheroes Shouldn’t Mix

Dear Sir Richard Branson and Gotham Chopra: I think we need to talk about your superhero habit. I was reading that your company, Virgin Comics, has just employed aging icon Stan Lee to create a new line of superhero books, just days after the publisher announced that it would be releasing Superbia, a series about…

io9 Graeme McMillan Apr 23

Sir Richard Branson Claims He and Larry Page are Working Together

Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson, who hosted Larry Page’s storm-tossed nuptials on his Caribbean island, Necker, last year, says that he and the two Google founders are working on a project together. According to a diary item in a British newspaper, the British tycoon and the two search engine billionaires are working on a secret…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jan 4

Britain’s First Space Hero Returns

Richard Branson and Deepak Chopra’s Virgin Comics are reviving Dan Dare, and the first issue hits shelves Thursday. Dare, Britain’s longest-running science-fiction character (created in 1950, he’s thirteen years older than Doctor Who) is returning to print courtesy of Garth Ennis, creator of Vertigo Comics’ Preacher series, ahead of a rumored movie adaptation. Image courtesy…

io9 Grae Nov 26

Explosion at Virgin Galactic Motor Test Kills Three [UPDATED]

[A third person has died. ]There’s been a sad setback for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space tourism company yesterday: An explosion during a rocket motor test killed two people and injured another four. It’s not clear exactly what happened, but sometime earlier today the nitrous oxide motor exploded on a remote pad at the Mojave…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jul 27

New Mexico to Build a Spaceport for Space Tourism

Apparently space travel for the common man is closer than we thought, at least according to one county in New Mexico. They’ve just approved a tax meant to pay for a spaceport, so I guess that means there’s a need for a spaceport, right? For the low, low price of $198 million, they’ll build a…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Apr 6

What Could Be More Suitable for a Space Ride Than Trance Music? Answer: Everything

First Video of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic’s Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap

Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo Flies For the First Time

Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light

Virgin Galactic’s White Knight, Branson, Rutan and Spaceman Buzz Captured on Vid

Enter the Virgin Mothership

Why Virgins And Superheroes Shouldn’t Mix

Sir Richard Branson Claims He and Larry Page are Working Together

Britain’s First Space Hero Returns

Explosion at Virgin Galactic Motor Test Kills Three [UPDATED]

New Mexico to Build a Spaceport for Space Tourism

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