Passengers will have to pay a sum of $125,000 for the 6-hour balloon ride, which is set to begin operations in 2024
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UAE-backed Virgin Galactic spacecraft forced to abort test flight
SpaceShipTwo took off from the Spaceport America base in New Mexico Saturday afternoon
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In pictures: A look inside Virgin Galactic spaceship cabin interior and seats
The VSS Unity’s cabin has a dozen windows to offer plentiful vistas of the Earth, as well as 16 cameras to capture both videos and still images as souvenirs.
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Dubai to London in 29 minutes: Why outer space could revolutionise travel
A new report from UBS found that high speed travel through outer space will likely eventually disrupt the long-haul airline business
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Fly me to space? UAE Space Agency in talks with Virgin Galactic to launch flights
Richard Branson’s Abu Dhabi-backed company successfully launched its SpaceShipTwo plane to space in February
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Video: Billionaires have funded space travel for decades
Reading today’s headlines you may think that billionaire entrepreneurs are new to the space race – they’re not. It all started with them. Here’s the brief history of private space travel.
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Video: This 31-year-old rocket scientist is changing space travel
Rocket Scientist Natalya Bailey owns a space startup called Accion Systems that specializes in making wafer thin engines that require a tiny fraction of energy that conventional rockets use. If successful, these ion thrusters could revolutionize how we will move through the final frontier.
