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Branson Unveils SpaceShipTwo, Sees ‘Thousands’ Venturing Into Space

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Monday, January 28th, 2008

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Billionaire space buff investor Richard Branson unveiled a new commercial spacecraft system, WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo, predicting that "thousands" of people will be able to realize their dream of venturing into space. Branson spoke confidently of "the thousands who will travel with us" to the final frontier. He also predicted that the new spaceship family could raise the curtain on the next gold-rush boom industry, with space travel being a successor to the dot.com craze, the Internet, cell phones and more.…

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