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Travel has long had an environmental cost: gasoline, jet fuel, spandex pants for bicycling. With space tourism soon to become a common occurrence, what will be the environmental price? More »
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SpaceShipTwo, a Virgin Galactic plane, may be ready to make regular commercial flights to space within twelve months. More »
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Here's Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two cruising over the Mojave Desert last Thursday. The VSS Enterprise spacecraft didn't travel into suborbital space but stayed affixed to its mothership. Virgin's planned price for a few minutes of suborbital views? $200,000. More »
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Do you know why Richard Branson was in such a hurry to unveil SpaceShipTwo last week? It's not because he loves cool toys — it's because he was worried an inventor who's created a personal UFO would steal his thunder. More »
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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 folk with 200 grand up their sleeves, that is. After the recent unveiling of Branson's Virgin Mothership, we have to ask: Exactly how far are these new space tourists going, and does Paris Hilton's Virgin Galactic ticket really make her equal to the likes of Yuri Gagarin? More »
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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 superheroes in suburbia, and... well, two thoughts come to mind. First off, between this and the other Stan Lee announcement last week, is everyone just giving Stan this much work right now because they're worried that, otherwise, he might die before they can cash in on his name? Secondly, I think it's time we staged an intervention for the two of you. More »
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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 of Virgin Comics [Newsarama] More »
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