Virgin spaceship firm gets big boost from Mideast

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson signed a deal Tuesday to sell about a third of his space travel startup Virgin Galactic to a Mideast investment fund, giving the venture an influx of cash at a time when the global recession has dried up funding sources.

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World dignitaries launch anti-nuclear plan

Former world leaders and arms-control negotiators joined entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and the queen of Jordan Tuesday to launch a project aimed at eliminating the world's nuclear weapons over the next 25 years.

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Virgin's Branson abandons sailing record

Two days after setting sail from New York City, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson abandoned his trans-Atlantic speed record Friday after his 99-foot ultra-modern racing yacht was hit with 40-foot waves in the Bermuda Triangle.

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Virgin Galactic shows off mothership aircraft

The space tourism race marked a milestone Monday as British mogul Sir Richard Branson and American aerospace designer Burt Rutan waved to a crowd from inside the cabin of an exotic jet that will carry a passenger spaceship to launch altitude.

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Branson: Fossett Likely Lost Forever

British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson said Monday he had all but given up hope that explorer Steve Fossett would be found alive.

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Scientists to Vie for $25M Climate Prize

Sir Richard Branson on Friday announced a $25 million prize for the scientist who comes up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, comparing it to the 17th-century quest to revolutionize navigation by determining longitude.

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A scale model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo in 2008 at the America Museum of Natural History in New York.

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Guinness has launched a competition offering drinkers the chance to win a trip into space aboard Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spacecraft.

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The 83-year-old is reported to be considering selling the company he founded more than 56 years ago for some £200 million, with Sir Richard Branson's firm Virgin tipped as a potential buyer.

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Virgin Atlantic has confirmed it is interested in being part of a consortium to buy Gatwick Airport. Its comments come two weeks after the Competition Commission said in an interim ruling that BAA may have to sell three of its UK airports.

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Rollout of Scaled Composites' mega-mothership, WhiteKnightTwo, is anticipated late July in Mojave, California — the first phase of a project to create a private space travel business — SPACE.com has learned in an exclusive interview.

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THE way Will Whitehorn tells it, the story began in 2003 in Mojave, California, on a visit to Scaled Composites, a company with a reputation for designing and building futuristic and sometimes wacky-looking aircraft.

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On Wednesday, August 22, an unscripted tiff between the Comedy Central comedian and billionaire Sir Richard Branson, which swirled up quite a bit of chatter in the blog rumor mill, will be shown in that night's episode of the faux-pundit talk show.

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Comic Companies Join Forces to Develop and Publish Massively Multiplayer Online Video Game

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To summarise: Should we send people into space? Yes... * It is the ultimate adventure to 'boldly go' where no man has gone before * Robots, despite all their apparent sophistication, will never be as adept in space as humans

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Sir Richard Branson suffered a rare defeat in his endless quest for self-promotion this weekend because his great rival, British Airways, has removed a shot of the Virgin Atlantic boss from their in-flight version of Casino Royale.

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This could very well be the greatest hoax perpetuated on citizens by their government in all of history.

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Noted polar explorer Will Steger has joined forces with world-renowned alpinist Ed Viesturs to conduct a spring expedition across Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.

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Many times I have sat upon a runway, watching a long line of planes running engines full blast for a few minutes up to a few hours, and wondered why there was no way to reduce the amount of fuel used during this period.

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