Posts Tagged ‘Caribbean’

Virgin Galactic and SpaceShipTwo

Thursday, January 24, 2008 15:03 No Comments

A few hours ago eccentric billionaire Richard Branson (aka Mr Virgin) and Burt Rutan (airplane designer) presented officially their new space vehicle, SpaceSipTwo which promises to offer voyages in Earth’s orbit.
If all goes well the test flights will start in a few months. The space craft, will be able to carry 8 people (6 passengers [...]

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New US e-passports with RFID

Saturday, January 5, 2008 15:37 3 Comments

Apparently the US government in an effort to speed up the security checks in airports, decided to implement a system with RFID tags on passports readable from 20 feet away. This will benefit those traveling from the US to areas near by such as Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean and it will come in [...]

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