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DARPA’S Turning To Bezos And Branson For Help Building Its Spaceplanes
We’ve known about DARPA’s plan to build a reusable, unmanned space plane for quite some time, but the agency just announced the companies that will help. Unsurprisingly, two feature famous billionaires who love space.
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Oh Good, You Can Now Use Bitcoin To Fly In A Space Plane
Congratulations to all aspiring crypto-currency cosmonauts out there; you’ll soon be able to use Bitcoin, everyone’s favourite pseudomonetary bubble, to book flights on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space boats.
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Look At SpaceShipTwo’s Rocket On Fire
In case you missed it earlier today, Virgin Galactic successfully performed its first rocket-powered test flight of the SpaceShipTwo. In other words, space tourism is nigh.
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Virgin Galactic Nearing First Rocket-Powered Test Flight
The photo you see above was taken on February 28 when the Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites team tested, for the first time, the rocket that will power its first test flight before going into orbit. It was a raging success.