sub orbital spaceflight
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Boeing Demands Virgin Galactic Destroy All Data From Its Failed Space Tourism Venture
There’s new drama in the space industry. Boeing filed a lawsuit against Virgin Galactic, accusing it of retaining trade secrets that the two companies had exchanged while working to develop a new mothership, which never came to fruition. On Friday, Boeing asked a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, to issue a court order blocking Virgin…
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Virgin Galactic Preps for Its Next Tourist Spaceplane…by Laying Off Staff
In an effort to cut cost for the sake of the development of its next generation spaceplane, Virgin Galactic will lay off a number of its employees and save on expenses in hopes of bringing in future profits from its commercial flights. Richard Branson’s private space venture announced on Tuesday a “strategic realignment of the…
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Big Rocket Energy: Pete Davidson Scores Free Seat on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Flight
A crew of six, including Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live, will attempt to venture past the Kármán line on March 23 aboard a Blue Origin rocket.
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In Big Middle Finger to Bezos, Richard Branson Set to Become the First Billionaire in Space
Virgin Galactic founder and billionaire Richard Branson announced Thursday he will travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere in a test flight set for July 11. If the launch goes according to plan, he’ll be the first billionaire in space, setting the record just nine days ahead of the first planned spaceflight of another obscenely rich astronaut…