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Gallery: Branson takes off in Eve

At the Airventure 2009 air show, Virgin Galactic chief, Sir Richard Branson, showed off its mother ship, WhiteKnightTwo aka VMS Eve. by Andy Smith

Tags: Mother, Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, Virgin Gallactic, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-07-29

Virgin Galactic unveils Eve; Snares Abu Dhabi investment

Virgin Galactic unveils Eve; Snares Abu Dhabi investmentWhat about safety?has it been thoroughly tested to see if passengers will not develop any adverse condition over time??

Tags: Investment, Virgin Galactic

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

Virgin Galactic unveils Eve; Snares Abu Dhabi investment

Sir Richard Branson unveiled his latest aircraft, or rather spacecraft. In a few years, for $200,000, thrill seekers will be able to ride into sub-orbit space. Separately, Virgin Galactic landed a $280 million investment from Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments. In this raw video, you get a look at...

Tags: Virgin Group, Investment, Virgin Galactic, Aabar Investments, Business Structures, Aerospace & Defense, Network Technology, Finance, Manufacturing, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Photos: Virgin Galactic's faces of Eve

WhiteKnightTwo "mothership," named for Branson's own mother, includes the new Galactic Girl icon. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Virgin Galactic, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-28

Google's blast from the past

Google has launched a new feature called "Custom Time" that lets you manipulate the headers on your email so it appears to have been sent in the past. The email will show up in the proper chronological order in your recipients inbox, and you can even have it marked as...

Tags: Google Inc., Virgin Galactic, E-mail, Online Communications, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Flight profile (Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwo)

Flight profile Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwoSpaceship TwoI think this is great. I am a big fan of Burt Rutan and all of his projects. I cannot wait until SpaceShip Two is complete. I am the academic coordinator for the Aircraft Manufacturing Technology program at a technical school...

Tags: SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceship

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceshipBeautifulThey are much better looking than the first ones. I hope that they accelerate space exploration and lunar landings. Unfortunately, the current goal is mostly space tourism, which is impractical. Maybe they'll raise enough money from it to fund the bigger picture, though.RE:...

Tags: space elevator, Virgin Galactic, architecture spaceship, SpaceShipTwo

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceship

Virgin Galactic on Wednesday unveiled designs for SpaceShipTwo and the WhiteKnightTwo, two vehicles that are designed to usher in private spaceflight. The technology behind the system will have an open architecture "like Linux," said officials. In an event at the American Museum at Natural History in New...

Tags: Event, Virgin Galactic, SpaceShipTwo, WhiteKnightTwo, Linux, Government, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Aerospace & Defense, UNIX, Operating Systems, Strategy, Open Source, Software, Manufacturing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-23

Images: SpaceShipTwo--your ticket to space

Virgin Galactic prepares to take passengers to the edge of space. This is one flight you don't want to buckle your seat belt.

Tags: belt

Image galleries 2006-10-05

Additional Resources

News to know: Microhoo; Multilingual spam; Apple; Verizon; Sprint

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft-Yahoo search pact appears to be a win-win if smaller deal Boomtown: Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Struck-Will Be Announced...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Verizon Communications Inc., SPSS Inc., Apple Inc., Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Business Analytics, IBM Corp., Web Browsers, Financial Planning, Channel Management, Internet, Finance, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Transitioning NASA: Tensions high between Griffin, transition team

Transitioning NASA: Tensions high between Griffin, transition teamHe has always voted against anything NASAHis original plans were to cancel every mayor project at NASA.Then he changed his stand the same day he visited Florida to give a speech near Kennedy Space Center. Then and only then he was pro-NASA.His...

Tags: O'Keefe, NASA, Griffin, Transitioning, transition team, Space-X

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

News to know: Microsoft; Oracle; SAP; Vista SP1 video

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs How will Microsoft spend its multicore millions? More details emerge on the Microsoft Sphere Larry Dignan: The future of computing: Multiple cores, multiple inputs Ryan Naraine: Evilgrade: Exploit...

Tags: Software, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Windows Vista, SAP AG, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Attack, Wiki, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management

Blog posts 2008-07-29

News to know: Microsoft interoperability; Bypassing FileVault; Woz; Black Hat; More benchmarks

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft pledges interoperability--again Reading the fine print on Microsoft’s new open-source promises Larry Dignan: Microsoft’s real game: Open interoperability protects its stack Dana Gardner: Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke? Dana Blankenhorn:...

Tags: Black Hat, Interoperability, Disk, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-22

News to know: Windows 7; eBay; Space race; Java

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 and Windows Live to get tighter Ed Bott: Vista virtualization: The bigger picture Via makes way for 64-bit chips Larry Dignan: eBay CEO Whitman steps down; execs shuffled amid weak...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Line Of Business, Java, eBay Inc., Phishing, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Keyboards, Cyberthreats, Open Source, Security, Spam And Phishing, Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Peripherals

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic showed off models of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Space, innovation, Virgin, technology, Larry Dignan

Image galleries 2008-01-23

X Prize winner says NASA 'silly' to go to moon again

Any work NASA is doing to return to the moon is "silly," Burt Rutan, the engineer who won the Ansari X Prize for a suborbital rocket plane, told a panel at CalTech on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the space program, News.com reports. "Taxpayer-funded NASA should only...

Tags: NASA, Productivity, Leadership, Management, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-21

NASA needs astronauts - apply here

Thought I'd take a detour from discussions about god to Space exploration, just because I'm enjoying staying mostly off-topic this week. It wasn't my intention that the talkbacks to my last post would take such a theological bent, but so what? The discussion was interesting, and...

Tags: NASA, Space

Blog posts 2006-09-01

Geeks in space

Geeks in spaceIf I had the moneyI would be SO there! That would be the first investment if I won the lottery. The second would be to buy a seat on a Virgin Galactic flight :DWhy? Because they are the forward thinkers.I mean if they weren't "futurists" they wouldn't...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Kinematics, Mother Earth, monument, AIAA, aerospace, cage

Discussion threads 2004-10-06

SpaceShipOne to launch again Monday

SpaceShipOne to launch again MondayBest of luck to them!Way to go gentlemen, way to go!!!Meanwhile....in other news, my left sack itches. Ahhh, much better now.Monday is 47th anniversary of Space AgeMany historians count Oct. 4, 1957, the day Sputnik I was launched, as the beginning of the Space Age. ...

Tags: SpaceShipOne, White Knight

Discussion threads 2004-10-01