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SpaceShipThree to be Orbital Spacecraft

Posted by samzenpus on from the space-class-flight dept.

FleaPlus writes "The president of spaceflight company Virgin Galactic has recently stated that if the upcoming suborbital service with SpaceShipTwo is successful, the follow-up SpaceShipThree will be an orbital craft. Although orbital spaceflights would be much longer and could potentially dock with orbital space stations, they are also considerably more difficult than suborbital spaceflights. Other private firms working on orbital spaceflight (and potentially in the running for Robert Bigelow's $50 million America's Space Prize for orbital flight) include t/Space and SpaceX."

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  1. news at eleven by spectrokid · · Score: 3, Funny

    we are building a spacecraft which should be better then our current one, and if we find out it actually works, then we will try to build one which is even better!!! seesh, talk about vapourware...

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  2. Re:Ticketprizes? by FireFury03 · · Score: 5, Funny

    $100.000 for flying from LA to Sydney in approx 4 hours?

    Plus a 4 hour checkin and a body-cavity search at customs...

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  3. Here's a suggestion by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 3, Funny

    How to make money with space tourism:

    Don't charge much up front. People could ride for beans on one condition. Their life insurance policies get made out to you.