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Construction On Spaceship Factory Set To Begin In the Mojave

Posted by timothy on from the want-a-lift? dept.

angry tapir writes "A production facility that would build the world's first fleet of commercial spaceships is set to begin construction on Tuesday at the Mojave Air and Space Port. The facility will be home to The Spaceship Co, or TSC — a joint venture owned by Mojave-based Scaled Composites and British billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism company, Virgin Galactic."

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  1. I must be dreaming by Sockatume · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Headlines like that give me goosebumps.

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    No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
  2. Re:Private Sector efficiency! by alen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the government did this first in the days when supercomputers were less powerful than iphones and droids. back then the engineers had to actually do the math by hand and test everything via trial and error