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Commercialization

SpaceShipTwo Mockup at NextFest

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

September 29, 2006

Virgin to Make Astronaut Idol, Contact Music

“Virgin empire boss Sir Richard Branson is in negotiations with British television networks to launch a talent show for aspiring astronauts.”

Editor’s update: Images have been released. Here are a few of them: [1][2][3][4]

Virgin Galactic Unveils Fullscale Mock-up of SpaceShipTwo

Editor’s note: Sir Richard Branson, Founder of the Virgin Group, will be on hand with his staff at Wired’s NextFest in New York City on Thursday to unveil a full scale mockup of his SpaceShipTwo commercial suborbital spacecraft. SpaceShipTwo is being developed by Branson and Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites. A fleet of five vehicles is planned.

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.