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Business/Financial

Branson, Rutan, Moving Ahead With WhiteKnightTwo System

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Monday, July 28th, 2008

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Billionaire space buff investor Richard Branson is moving ahead with his plan to create a commercial space travel system: the WhiteKnightTwo mothership aircraft, and the SpaceShipTwo spaceship. A portion of the Virgin Galactic system was rolled out today at Mojave, Calif.. WhiteKnightTwo, called Eve, was rolled out. It will carry SpaceShipTwo aloft, where it will blast off for suborbital flights. Space tourists might pay $200,000 or so for the trip. Burt Rutan, CEO of Scaled Composites, led design of the…

Congress

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