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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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Virgin Galactic went so far as to lend out Oculus Quest headsets to journalists, including yours truly, so we could get an advance peek at a computer-generated interior with an eye-filling view of Earth and space out the window. The headset gives you a visual taste of what those spacefliers will experience.

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9 questions about the missing Titanic submersible, answered

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Rush is an aerospace engineer with a well-documented love of deep sea exploration and designing experimental aircraft and modded submersibles (there’s been a lot of talk of how the Titan is maneuvered by a jerry-rigged video game controller ). It’s piloted with a video game controller, which is not as weird as it sounds.

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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’s flight plan calls for the foursome to be launched beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) space boundary to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and look out at the curving Earth through the New Shepard crew capsule’s picture windows. “What I don’t want to see is somebody else out there looking at me.”

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‘Mercury 13’ woman aviator Wally Funk will ride with Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin suborbital space trip

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Instagram Video / Jeff Bezos). In a video posted today to Instagram and YouTube , Bezos talks with the 82-year-old Funk about the flight — and Funk goes wide-eyed when the world’s richest individual asks what she’ll do when it’s finished. “And I can outrun you.” “Woohoo! Ha ha, I can hardly wait!”

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9 questions about the missing Titanic submersible, answered

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Rush was an aerospace engineer with a well-documented love of deep-sea exploration and designing experimental aircraft and modded submersibles (there’s been a lot of talk of how the Titan was maneuvered by a modified video game controller ). It was piloted with a video game controller, which is not as weird as it sounds.

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The disappearing bathtub and OceanGate’s other tales of the Titanic’s rapid decay

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Mission specialists at left and right capture pictures of the Titanic’s iconic bow, as seen through the Titan submersible’s 2-foot-wide window. Here’s a sampling of photos and videos from OceanGate’s Twitter accounts: Special thanks to @SubCImaging for supplying OceanGate's Titan with the Rayfin Subsea 4k camera.

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How to watch William Shatner beam up to suborbital space on Blue Origin’s rocket

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“It looks like there’s a great deal of curiosity about this fictional character — Captain Kirk — going into space,” Shatner said in a video released today by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture. “So let’s go along with it and enjoy the ride.” ” View this post on Instagram.

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