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Richard Branson's SpaceShipTwo boasting: Over-confidence or height of passion?
World | Nov 06, 2014, 09:16 PM ISTWe all grew up listening, "try and try until you succeed", but guess Richard Branson has taken that learning way too seriously!Just days after the crash of Virgin Galactic's 'SpaceShipTwo' that left one pilot dead,
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CEO: Virgin Galactic looks to resume tests in 2015
World | Nov 06, 2014, 07:01 AM ISTNew Mexico: The space tourism company that suffered a tragic setback when its experimental rocket-powered spaceship broke apart over the California desert could resume test flights as early as next summer if it can finish
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Many questions still unanswered in spaceship crash
World | Nov 04, 2014, 08:29 AM ISTLos Angeles: Federal accident investigators have an early sense of what went wrong before an experimental spaceship designed to carry tourists beyond the Earth's atmosphere broke apart during a test flight. But they still don't
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A look at Virgin Galactic's feathering technology
World | Nov 04, 2014, 07:37 AM ISTCalifornia: The Virgin Galactic spaceship destroyed when it broke apart high over the Mojave Desert was designed to take tourists on a fleeting thrill ride through the lower reaches of space.On the way back down,
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Probe of space tourism rocket crash may take year
World | Nov 02, 2014, 05:02 PM ISTMojave, California : Billionaire Richard Branson is promising to find out what caused the crash of his Virgin Galactic prototype space tourism rocket that killed a test pilot, but U.S. federal investigators are cautioning that
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Official: Debris sign of spaceship breaking up
World | Nov 02, 2014, 12:02 PM ISTMojave, California: Investigators looking into what caused the crash of a Virgin Galactic prototype spacecraft that killed one of two test pilots said a 5-mile path of debris across the California desert indicates the aircraft
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Richard Branson vows to find out cause of spacecraft crash
World | Nov 02, 2014, 09:18 AM ISTMojave, California: Billionaire Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson vowed on Saturday to find out what caused the crash of his prototype space tourism craft that killed one of two test pilots, adding that while he