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Glimpsing the Future with Newt

Published on April 29, 2018 By sirrahc

“The future is going to be amazing, and we should be optimistic that as a free people we can lead the world into that future – just as we led the world with new developments in cars, airplanes, computers and the Internet.”  — Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and unabashed […]

"Liftoff!" with Training Wheels

Published on March 26, 2010 By sirrahc

Some of you may remember back in December when I mentioned the public unveiling of Virgin Galactic’s first SpaceShipTwo craft — soon to be “the world’s first commercial spaceship.” Now christened the VSS Enterprise (yeah!), the ship is back in the news with another historic milestone. Mounted on a pylon between the twin fuselages of […]

$200K for 5 Minutes of Weightlessness and a Great View? Cool!

Published on December 8, 2009 By sirrahc

Virgin Galactic has just publicly revealed SpaceShipTwo, “the world’s first commercial spaceship.” The firm already has 300 people who have reserved their spots with at least a deposit, though those flights won’t begin for a couple years. It sounds like a lot of money, but it’s a whole order of magnitude less than billionaires have […]