Tag: VSS Enterprise

Gaga to Sing and Marry Aboard Virgin Galactic?

Gaga to Sing and Marry Aboard Virgin Galactic?

Say it ain’t so. The Daily Star reports that in addition to performing a one song “set” on her upcoming sub-orbital flight aboard Richard’s Branson’s Virgin Galactic,  Lady Gaga is planning to have a “commitment ceremony” with her boyfriend Taylor Kinney on the maiden flight of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise. According to the Daily Star  […]

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Virgin Galactic Makes Hybrid Motor Switch

Virgin Galactic Makes Hybrid Motor Switch

Based on Virgin Galactic’s marketing arrangement with NBC, it’s a pretty good bet that as the company approaches its first flights, much of the breaking news will come from that source, and hopefully from Alan Boyle. So, along those lines, we learned on Friday that VG is making a switch in the hybrid fuel mixture […]

Virgin Galactic Tapped by NASA to Host Commercial Research Payload

Virgin Galactic Tapped by NASA to Host Commercial Research Payload

Virgin Galactic, Masten Space Systems and UP Aerospace were among the winners in the  latest round of research flight assignments as part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, which makes use of a variety of reusable assets to host small, low-cost research payloads.  Altogether, the agency made 13 awards,  but only four were for payloads on  reusable commercial suborbital vehicles,  with […]

Getting to Space : Looking Ahead in 2013

Getting to Space : Looking Ahead in 2013

As spaceship Earth embarks on another trip around the Sun,  it’s an appropriate occasion to take a look ahead at the New Year and consider what developments might take place which could change the fundamental cost basis of reaching orbit. Suborbital Space:  After seemingly  endless delays, 2013 is poised to be the breakout year for the reusable suborbital launch industry.  (but […]

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