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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. The company has also become known for leading deep sea tourism trips.

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9 questions about the missing Titanic submersible, answered

Vox

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.”

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Weather forces a day’s delay in William Shatner’s Blue Origin suborbital space trip

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Blue Origin , the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says the 90-year-old actor and his three shipmates are now due to fly on the company’s New Shepard craft on Wednesday rather than Tuesday, due to a forecast for unacceptable winds at the West Texas launch site on the originally scheduled date. CT (6:30 a.m.

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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. Blue Origin said Davidson would be getting a free flight as the company’s guest.

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship aces uncrewed rehearsal for crewed flight to space

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There’s even a defogging system for the capsule’s nearly floor-to-ceiling windows. Cornell emphasized that the company observed social-distancing guidelines for mission preparations and sent a minimal ground crew to Texas for the launch.

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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. “There’s a very happy group of people in this capsule!” “Best day ever!”