Richard Branson to travel to space by July aboard Virgin Galactic spaceship

1. Richard Branson to travel to space by July aboard Virgin Galactic spaceship Virgin Galactic is one of two companies, along with Blue Origin, on its way to sending passengers into space -- though just barely, and just for a few minutes English Billionaire Richard Branson intends to head out to space inside the following four or five months on board his very own Virgin Galactic spaceship, he told AFP.

2. "My desire is to go up on the 50th commemoration of the moon getting, that is what we're taking a shot at," the leader of the Virgin group said Thursday on the sidelines of an occasion to respect Virgin Galactic at the Air and Space Museum in Washington. The American Apollo 11 mission arrived on the moon July 20, 1969. Virgin Galactic is one of two organizations, alongside Blue Origin, on its approach to sending travelers into space - however marginally, and only for a couple of minutes. The organizations need to send hundreds or thousands of individuals on these short "suborbital" flights, which means they wouldn't inspire sufficiently high to circle the earth. These missions would be shorter and more reasonable than SpaceX's arranged venture to send a Japanese extremely rich person to the moon by 2023 at the most punctual. Virgin Galactic flew 50 miles (80 km) over the earth, which the US thinks about the edge of room, without precedent for December (the worldwide accord is 100 km). Virgin Galactic's spaceship, called SpaceShipTwo, is directed by two pilots. To remove, it's dropped by a transporter plane like a bomb, at that point begins its own motor to fly off straight into the sky, inevitably moving sufficiently high to see the ebb and flow of the earth. Continue Reading