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Private space pioneers: We're inheritors of Apollo legacy

Richard Garriott had more reason than most to dream the Apollo moon landings would rapidly expand space travel. His father was a NASA astronaut, as were many of his neighbors near Texas' Johnson Space Center.

One giant leap toward space tourism in New Mexico

The era when travelers will be able to catch a flight from New Mexico to outer space moved a step closer this week with the official start of construction of Spaceport America.

Check out your future check-in

Space travel, security threats and increasing passenger numbers are forcing major changes in the way airports are designed.

Opening the space frontier, one tourist at a time

The view will be one unlike any other.

Time.com: Space Tourist Richard Garriott

The sixth private citizen to go into orbit talks to TIME about the space race, Stephen Colbert and being a second-generation astronaut

FSB: Rocket Town U.S.A.

Outside Hangar 7, the desert and sky stretch as far as you can see, broken only by the distant Tehachapi Mountains and the occasional Joshua tree.

Fortune: Branson's sky-high plans for Virgin

So here we were at 6:20 Monday morning at Los Angeles International Airport. Despite the hour, a disc jockey played pulsing club music, a soundtrack that soon continued onboard a Virgin America Airbus with "My Other Ride is a Spaceship" emblazoned behind its nose. A 20-minute flight later, the jet landed in Mojave, Calif., where tycoon Richard Branson awaited.

Virgin Galactic keeps low profile after explosion

As a female voice coos, "Welcome to space," six passengers in skintight spacesuits unbuckle their seatbelts and somersault in zero gravity, occasionally peeking back at Earth through the private spaceship's large portholes.

Blast at desert spaceport kills 3

A third person died Friday from an explosion at a rocket test pad operated by a private company in California's southern Mojave Desert, according to the nursing supervisor at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield.

Blast at desert spaceport kills 2, injures 4

An explosion at an airport home to Scaled Composites -- the builder of the first private manned rocket to reach space -- killed two people and left four seriously hurt Thursday, a Kern County Fire Department official says.

Private space pioneers: We're inheritors of Apollo legacy

One giant leap toward space tourism in New Mexico

The era when travelers will be able to catch a flight from New Mexico to outer space moved a step closer this week with the official start of construction of Spaceport America.

Check out your future check-in

Space travel, security threats and increasing passenger numbers are forcing major changes in the way airports are designed.

Opening the space frontier, one tourist at a time

The view will be one unlike any other.

Time.com: Space Tourist Richard Garriott

The sixth private citizen to go into orbit talks to TIME about the space race, Stephen Colbert and being a second-generation astronaut

FSB: Rocket Town U.S.A.

Outside Hangar 7, the desert and sky stretch as far as you can see, broken only by the distant Tehachapi Mountains and the occasional Joshua tree.

Fortune: Branson's sky-high plans for Virgin

Virgin Galactic keeps low profile after explosion

Blast at desert spaceport kills 3

Blast at desert spaceport kills 2, injures 4

Business 2.0: Space tourism race heats up

Jim Benson's ship is called the Dream Chaser, and here's the dream he's chasing: a 50 percent profit margin on revenue of $200 million by 2015 from putting tourists into suborbital space.

Billionaire building flying space pod

A mere three years after Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne skimmed the edge of space to capture the $10-million Ansari X Prize, more than half a dozen companies are furiously building and testing spacecraft designed to take paying passengers on suborbital journeys and beyond.

Leaping into the future

"I never think of the future" Albert Einstein once said, "It comes soon enough". But at the beginning of the 21st Century even the great scientist might have been taken aback by the pace of scientific and engineering advances of recent times.

CNN Future Summit forum

Space tourism is being packaged as the ultimate trip -- almost as an extension of a normal flight but with incredible views, the experience of weightlessness and supersonic speeds. Companies such as Virgin Galactic are taking bookings from the rich and famous for the sub-orbital flights they hope to start in 2008.

Breaking the final frontier

Space tourism is being packaged as the ultimate trip -- almost as an extension of a normal flight but with incredible views, the experience of weightlessness and supersonic speeds.

A look inside Virgin Galactic's new ride

Virgin Galactic recently unveiled a mock-up of the slick, Philippe Starck --designed interior of its SpaceShipTwo (SS2) suborbital tourist vehicle.

CNNMoney: A space ride for Christmas?

Want to make someone's Christmas really special this year? Consider a trip to outer space.

Space tourism: Trip of a lifetime

Who hasn't looked up at the stars and wondered what it must be like to travel through space? Only a fortunate few have made the trip, and at enormous cost. But soon, the excitement and adventure may be within reach of many more of us.

Business 2.0: Hurtling into the space tourism industry

A note from Erick Schonfeld: After six years of writing Future Boy, I'm handing the reins to my colleague Chris Taylor to focus on features for the magazine and my B2Day blog, which you can also subscribe to by e-mail or RSS. Taylor shares my interest in the Internet and new media, but he's also interested in other boundaries of technology, like space, the subject of his first Future Boy column.

Business 2.0: Out of This World

SPACE HOTELS

Blast-off for frequent flyers

Executives bored with criss-crossing the globe will soon have the chance to boldly go where few travelers have gone before: space.

Fortune: Do Branson's profits equal his joie de vivre?

I MUST SAY THAT I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED IN RICHARD Branson. After all this time as one of the world's highest-profile entrepreneurs, he's only now beginning to deal in the world's two most precio...

CNNMoney: New space race for tourists

Forget the Russians and the Americans. The new space race is between the guys from Virgin Atlantic, Amazon.com, and PayPal.

Space tourism taking shape

Ticket to ride commuter flights to the edge of space may not be too far off -- with spaceliners departing several spaceports here in the United States.

CNNMoney: Rules for space tourism

Earth to space travelers: The 10-second countdown isn't all the preparation you need before blasting into outer space.

Moon trips next, says space tourist

One of only two people to pay their own way into space says space tourism will become an integral part of the industry, eventually leading to more trips to the moon.

SpaceShipOne captures X Prize

SpaceShipOne achieved its most spectacular flight yet, climbing to an altitude of 377,591 feet (71 1/2 miles) to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize on Monday.

My mobile life

I'm not a huge fan of technology and I sometimes wonder whether it has had such a big impact on our lives. But one thing that has changed the way that I do business is the mobile phone.

Now Virgin to offer trips to space

British entrepreneur Richard Branson has announced his company has signed a deal to offer the world's first commercial flights to space under the branding "Virgin Galactic."

Fortune: Entrepreneurs Looking Up Why those in the business of tourism think outer space is travel's final frontier.

Thirty years after Alan Shepard's lunar tee shot, entrepreneurs in the earthly business of tourism are looking up toward that back nine in the sky. Forget the right stuff--all tourists need is abou...

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