Branson unveils commercial spaceship
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson calls his spacecraft for tourists willing to pay 200,000 dollars a ticket “a dream come true.”
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Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
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- Mojave is a very small town.
- The town is very remote.
- Branson’s spaceship business is thriving.
- The spaceship will carry 6 people.
- He’s been thinking about going to space for a very long time.
- Going to space is unbelievable according to Branson.
- Space flights should begin in 2010.
- The duration of the flight is 2 hours.
- Branson believes that comparisons between his organisation and NASA are not relevant.
- The only potential problem for the spaceship is a build-up of heat as the ship re-enters earth’s atmosphere.
- Branson will be on the first flight.
- He plans to run regular 2-hour commercial flights into space in the future.
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