Launching Spring 2010 National Geographic and Virgin Galactic
Join maverick entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and legendary
aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan on their quest to create the
world’s first commercial manned spaceship. Over the next two
years the project will pass a series of milestones, each a
groundbreaking development towards the first commercial space
flights. Virgin Galactic will document the pioneers in space
tourism, Virgin’s pilots and crew, and their first passengers –
with plans calling for 50,000 ordinary people to travel into
space in the first 10 years of operation. STATEMENT FROM VIRGIN
GALACTIC CEO GEORGE WHITESIDES ON THE SIGNING OF SB 240, THE
SPACE FLIGHT INFORMED CONSENT BILL GEORGE WHITESIDES ON THE
SIGNING OF THE SPACE FLIGHT INFORMED CONSENT BILL Virgin
Galactic acquires full ownership of The Spaceship Company
Announce the Launch of the Galactic Unite STEM Scholarship
Program for Young Women. Frederick “CJ” Sturckow and Michael
“Sooch” Masucci have been selected to join the comm