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IEEE Spectrum January 2013 David Schneider	Virgin Galactic Space Planes Should Launch This Year $200,000 buys you a seat and the end result should be something science-fiction writers have long dreamed of: regularly scheduled passenger flights into space.
Popular Mechanics July 29, 2008 Barbara S. Peterson	What Virgin's WhiteKnightTwo Really Means to the Future of Space Even with prototypes now just about ready to fly, how relevant is this self-styled New Space Race?
Popular Mechanics March 26, 2008 Matt Sullivan	California Startup XCOR Joins Space Tourism Race (With Video) Rocket engine manufacturer XCOR Aerospace offered a first look at its Lynx spacecraft, a uniquely designed two-seat plane that will be able to make several trips to space per day.
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Wired January 2005 Spencer Reiss	Rocket Man Richard Branson conquered the world with the Virgin brand. Now, through a deal being negotiated with SpaceShipOne's owners, he wants to fly you to space with Virgin Galactic, the world's first off-the-planet private airline.
Popular Mechanics December 9, 2009 Rand Simberg	Virgin Galactic's Unveil Is Tip of the Iceberg for Private Spaceflight The ability to fly experimenters and their experiments into suborbit, regularly and cheaply, could be a game changer in terms of research progress.
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Otis Port	Private Space Travel: We May Have Liftoff If all goes well on June 21, the world's first private space plane will have shot 62 miles up into space before gliding back to land at the Mojave airport north of Los Angeles, launching a new revolution in space tourism.
Wired December 2004	After the X Prize Manned space travel's best hope is the private sector, not NASA. In the open market, entrepreneurs and space hobbyists will do in a decade what NASA couldn't do in 46 years: provide safe, reliable trips to the heavens for the cost of a Caribbean cruise.
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InternetNews October 27, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Silicon Valley Goes Into Orbit Got a few extra million just burning a hole in your pocket? A number of Silicon Valley pioneers are spending their spare change for a ticket into space.
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The Motley Fool January 3, 2006 Michael Jaffe	A Match Made in Heaven? SpaceDev merges with Starsys, and entrepreneurial capitalism meets the final frontier. SpaceDev shareholders are hoping that the synergies between these two organizations will be nothing short of stellar. Investors, play close attention.
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