Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic, founded in 2004, is a company that is part of the Richard Branson's Virgin Group, which plans to offer space flights to the paying public. Branson has plans for the continuation of a whole industry around space tourism to start and wants to eventually build even a hotel in space.

Space flights for civilians since 2001, offered by the Russian space agency Roskosmos. These flights cost around 20 million euros. The flights by Virgin Galactic would be a great step forward, because space tourism also comes in range of people with a smaller fair.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == ===First plans[ Edit] === After the successful flight of SpaceShipOne in the framework of the Ansari X Prizecompetition, Virgin Galactic signed on september 25, 2004 a contract with Mojave Aerospace Ventures to buy the first commercial spacecraft for space tourism. According to plan, there will be five spaceships based on the SpaceShipOne set to be built. The new ship will be controlled by a pilot and five passengers. A flight should take about three hours, with around seven minutes weightlessness is experienced. A ticket will cost about $ 200,000, for which one flight and a week flight training is offered. As of 2008, these flights are possible. Profits from previous flights must ensure that these flights cheaper. ===Sequel[ Edit] === In January 2008, the design of SpaceShipTwo, which is pretty different from what was expected on the basis of the original. There is now room for two pilots and six passengers. On October 10, 2010, the company announced that its prototype spaceship, the VSS Enterprise, has carried out a successful first test flight. [1]  Virgin Galactic wants in the future with this kind of space ships, for a price of $ 200,000, passengers on shortsub-orbital space flights go transport outside the Earth's atmosphere.
 * 1.1 First plans
 * 1.2 Sequel
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