by David Todd | May 21, 2009 | Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Yesterday on 20 May Scaled Composite’s WhiteKnight Two prototype Virgin Mothership Eve flew for the fifth time Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn has told Hyperbola that the test lasted 3h and that: “Flight 5 has been a great success as it tested the...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 1, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
I had heard a rumour that Virgin Galactic had approached Cable News Network, aka CNN, and offered them a seat, exclusively, a one time offer to a global news organisation for a ride on SpaceShip Two; and it sort of made sense considering a lot of...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 20, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space Insurance, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Click here to listen to the final fifth part of Hyperbola’s series of podcasts that will in total make up the 45min interview with Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn held on 4 March 2009 in the company’s London offices. During this 9min 37s interview...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 16, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space Insurance, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Click here to listen to part four of Hyperbola’s series of podcasts that will in total make up the 45min interview with Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn held on 4 March 2009 in the company’s London offices. During this 7min 21s interview hear...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 16, 2009 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
What do you mean you don’t read Swedish? Go through to the extended portion of this blog post to see the translation FIVE NORDIC TOUR cleared to SELL SPACE TRAVEL to Virgin Galactic You are hereby invited to the press conference with Richard Branson...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 13, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
click here to listen to Hyperbola’s 16min 16s interview with Virgin Galactic’s chief test pilot David Mackay (pr.Mack-eye) David Mackay is Virgin Galactic’s chief test pilot on a part time basis while he still works for Virgin Atlantic, which he...
