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Re: Virgin Galactic (was Re: Some good news for a change, maybe?
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Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:32:17 GMT
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Be careful, Richard Branson's life is one big publicity stunt. Where Branson is
concerned, not everything which glistens is shiny tubular bells. Search Google
for "Richard Branson publicity stunt" to see what I mean.
Scott A
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> (stuff about SpaceShipOne)
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> Making the rounds of the newswires today:
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> http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=591546§ion=finance
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> Richard Branson and his firm, Virgin, are to launch a new space tourism venture,
> in partnership with Paul Allen and Burt Rutan, using Scaled Composites/Mojave
> Aerospace hardware/designs, with an investment about 100M USD.
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> 200K USD per flight per passenger, including training, for a 2-3 hour total
> duration 130KM suborbital flight. Richard projects 3000 passengers (or 600M USD
> gross revenue) and says the profits from this will fund further development.
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> Note that per Scaled's website, their first Xprize flight attempt is/was slated
> for this week. (unless something changed)
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