Sentences with phrase «space tourism company»

Over three and a half years since the fatal crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, Richard Branson's space tourism company may finally be back on track.

That's the approach by space tourism company Virgin Galactic, but Virgin's rocket - powered spacecraft has had a troubled development marred by a fatal crash in 2014.

Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by airline mogul Richard Branson, is also set to take some giant leaps forward in 2011.

Virgin Galactic head Sir Richard Branson this week unveiled his space tourism company's White Knight Two (WK2).

The workers were testing components of SpaceShipTwo, which is being developed for Richard Branson's fledgling space tourism company, Virgin Galactic.

Space Adventures, Ltd., a Vienna, Va., space tourism company that has sent six clients to the International Space Station, even advertises a circumlunar trip aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for $ 100 million per seat.

Rutan, with his company Scaled Composites, is now trying to capitalize on the success of SpaceShipOne by building SpaceShipTwo for Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company founded by another famous maverick, Richard Branson.

But, he didn't stop there as he subsequently launched an airline, Virgin Atlantic Airways; a phone company, Virgin Mobile; and, most recently, Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company.

On any given day, I might see Virgin Trains» social media team working at the Virgin Media office or the marketing group from Virgin Limited Edition (our luxury hotel business) heading over to our space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, to share updates and tips.

Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company, promises that anyone who can afford the US$ 200,000 fare and pass pre-flight medical exams and a two - day bird course will soon be able to look down on Earth's majesty from 360,000 feet.

Space tourism company World View just got a Silicon Valley - boost toward its goal of sending humans to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.

Martin Ross, another of the paper's authors, who works at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., explains that hybrid motors favoured by space tourism companies are safer, cheaper to run, and quicker to refuel than the liquid or solid rocket boosters that have dominated rocketry thus far.

Not exact matches

While rocket building and space tourism are exciting to Smith, Blue Origin, at its core, is «a propulsion company,» he said.

While many of the space industry's heavyweights — Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — spent 2016 talking up their respective ambitions to go to Mars or build a space tourism business, Moon Express might be the company closest to getting humans to a place they haven't visited in 44 years.

To address this «big problem,» the company, which is owned by Ebay, has enlisted the Space Tourism Society and the SETI Institute to help it launch PayPal Galactic (yes, that's the real name), an initiative to devise solutions.

Everything: Live in a commune, create a magazine, buy a nightclub, breed budgerigars, build a recording studio, start a business, crash that business, build a train company, launch a space - tourism company, start a racing team, create a cosmetics line, travel around the world in a hot air balloon and live on a private island.

Separately, Sir Richard Branson - founded Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures, companies that offer tourism opportunities for non-scientists.

Lewicki and his team operate within an emerging movement called NewSpace, whereby aerospace companies work to develop space tourism services or underlying technologies at low cost.

Bezos» rocket company, Blue Origin, has been working on sub-orbital space flight since 2000, with an eye on the space tourism market.

The Obama plan is to create a diverse industry of taxi fleets that will transport cargo and crew to low Earth orbit, both for NASA and for commercial enterprises such as satellite companies or space tourism.

12 More explosion paranoia: Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's space - tourism company, reportedly considered barring women with breast implants due to fears that they might blow up.

The commercial space flight company sent its space plane, VSS Unity, for its first untethered test flight in two years, a step towards space tourism

Logsdon says two commercial companies have expressed interest in a long - term low - Earth orbit space station: Axiom Space, a company planning to build a replacement for the ISS for space tourism, manufacturing and advertising purposes among others, and Bigelow Aerospace, which already has an inflated habitat module attached to thespace station: Axiom Space, a company planning to build a replacement for the ISS for space tourism, manufacturing and advertising purposes among others, and Bigelow Aerospace, which already has an inflated habitat module attached to theSpace, a company planning to build a replacement for the ISS for space tourism, manufacturing and advertising purposes among others, and Bigelow Aerospace, which already has an inflated habitat module attached to thespace tourism, manufacturing and advertising purposes among others, and Bigelow Aerospace, which already has an inflated habitat module attached to the ISS.

The IoD is seeking to showcase its meeting and function space, history and five - star service to a wider international audience of business travellers, destination management companies, event organisers and trade and tourism bodies.

«To formulate a regime for licensing UK companies» space tourism activities,... BNSC will be looking at proposals over the next few months and asking «stakeholders, which could be space law firms, insurance companies and relevant government departments, their views on space tourism for the manned suborbital flight licensing system it thinks it will need under the UK's Outer Space Act, which became law in 1986.»&rspace tourism activities,... BNSC will be looking at proposals over the next few months and asking «stakeholders, which could be space law firms, insurance companies and relevant government departments, their views on space tourism for the manned suborbital flight licensing system it thinks it will need under the UK's Outer Space Act, which became law in 1986.»&rspace law firms, insurance companies and relevant government departments, their views on space tourism for the manned suborbital flight licensing system it thinks it will need under the UK's Outer Space Act, which became law in 1986.»&rspace tourism for the manned suborbital flight licensing system it thinks it will need under the UK's Outer Space Act, which became law in 1986.»&rSpace Act, which became law in 1986.»»

Picking up on a report by Flight International, Londin explains that if a U.K. space - tourism company — such as, say, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — is going to launch from U.S. spaceports, international space treaties would require it to have the approval of the British National Space Cespace - tourism company — such as, say, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — is going to launch from U.S. spaceports, international space treaties would require it to have the approval of the British National Space Cespace treaties would require it to have the approval of the British National Space CeSpace Centre.

Meanwhile, another company trying to make space tourism a thing, Virgin Galactic, recently completed the first «supersonic, rocket - powered flight» of its Unity spacecraft.

SpaceShip Two is designed for space tourism and manufactured by The Spaceship Company, which is owned by Virgin Galactic.