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Virgin Galactic offers a peek inside SpaceShipTwo in VR, making its case in the space tourism race

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Virgin Galactic went so far as to lend out Oculus Quest headsets to journalists, including yours truly, so we could get an advance peek at a computer-generated interior with an eye-filling view of Earth and space out the window. If only we could all afford to sample the suborbital space smorgasbord!

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Marking another first, Blue Origin sends six spacefliers on a single suborbital trip

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture guided another suborbital space trip into the record books today — a trip that also marked a giant leap toward making space tourism routine. (Blue Origin via YouTube). PT), and New Shepard’s booster pushed the crew capsule to an altitude of 107 kilometers (351,225 feet, or 66.5

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Blue Origin teams up with Sierra Space, Boeing and others on ‘Orbital Reef’ space station project

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That version would include power-generating capability, a core module with picture windows looking down on Earth, an inflatable habitat provided by Sierra Space and a Boeing-built science lab. Sherwood said Orbital Reef could serve as a base for activities ranging from research to manufacturing, media projects and space tourism.

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Virgin Orbit set to try and send satellites to space for the first time

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Virgin Orbit — the sister company of billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism outfit Virgin Galactic — will try a second test of its small satellite-launching rocket later today, months after it failed to reach orbit during a first attempt. Virgin Orbit says the window for launch will last until 5PM ET. Image: Virgin Orbit.

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The pandemic stopped Angela Shen’s Seattle food tours — and tech powers her pivot to delivery

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It’s tough to run a business dependent on tourism when there are no tourists, and when the places you would show off to the tourists are closed by a global health crisis. When tourism and the restaurant industry came to a screeching halt, the business pivoted nearly overnight into the curated and aggregated food delivery space.

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How to watch the countdown to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin suborbital space trip (and why)

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PT), with Bezos and the rest of the crew sitting back in their seats, looking through the picture windows in their capsule as a hydrogen-fueled rocket booster sends them skyward. The New Shepard rocket ship is scheduled to blast off from Launch Site One’s pad at 8 a.m. But Bezos prefers to take the long view. ”

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Blue Origin sets a date for its next flight to launch people and experiments into space

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The launch window will open at 8 a.m. Meanwhile, the capsule continues to rise above the 100-kilometer Karman Line, giving crew members a few minutes of weightlessness and a picture-window view of earthly terrain beneath the black sky of space.

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