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Virgin Galactic offers a peek inside SpaceShipTwo in VR, making its case in the space tourism race

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More than a decade after Virgin Galactic unveiled a swoopy, spacey look for the passenger cabin of its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, the company took the wraps off a more down-to-Earth design that reflects what spacefliers will actually see when they climb into their seats. Virgin Galactic Illustration).

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9 questions about the missing Titanic submersible, answered

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On board are five passengers, including a French maritime expert, a billionaire British explorer, a British-Pakistani tycoon and his teenaged son, as well as Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate, the company leading the expedition. We’ll be updating this post as the story develops. After departing from St.

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9 questions about the missing Titanic submersible, answered

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OceanGate, the company that operates the Titan submersible, said that the crew of the sub is dead. The company said in a statement, “We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost.” After departing from St.

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It’s a date! Comedian Pete Davidson will headline Blue Origin suborbital space trip next week

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The other five spacefliers listed in today’s announcement are: Marty Allen , an angel investor and the former CEO of Party America and California Closet Company, among other ventures. Marc Hagle , the president and CEO of Tricor International, a residential and commercial property development corporation.

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‘Best day ever!’ Blue Origin sends Jeff Bezos on suborbital trip with oldest and youngest spacefliers

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The billionaire and three crewmates — including the world’s oldest space traveler and the youngest — took a 10-minute ride on a reusable New Shepard rocket ship that was built by Blue Origin, the company created by Bezos in 2000. Check back for updates in this developing story. “Best day ever!”

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Star Trek’s William Shatner finally reaches the final frontier in Blue Origin spaceship

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“Heads we go, tails we don’t,” Shatner joked on the company’s live webcast. Shatner and the others had a few minutes to get out of their seats, float in zero-G and gaze at the curving Earth through the capsule’s picture windows. A ruling on Blue Origin’s legal challenge is expected next month.

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The future of cities, according to the experts

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Remote work means that people can work from anywhere — and they are, with the percentage of working days from home settling in at 30 percent — and yet companies keep calling people back to the office. Many office building footprints are extremely large, making it basically impossible for each apartment to have necessities like windows.

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