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Virgin Atlantic Licensing SpaceShipOne

Posted by Hemos on from the the-eventual-goal-of-course dept.

Tigerquoll writes "According to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, British airline magnate Richard Branson has announced a plan for the world's first commercial space flights and has signed a technology licensing deal with Mojave Aerospace Ventures - the US company behind SpaceShipOne. See scaled composites' media release and the Virgin Galactic website"

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  1. Re:This is technological progress... by gowen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, the recent delay on the Pendolino is nothing to do with the trains, and everything to do with the fact that the West Coast Mainline tracks themselves hadn't been maintained sufficiently well to allow the trains to run on them.

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