Posts Tagged ‘Virgin’

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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2008: The year of Feta cheese, Kermit the frog and potatoes

Tuesday, January 1, 2008 10:16 No Comments

It seems that we got a lot to look forward to for 2008 according to Nature. According to the famous journal various organisations and countries have declared 2008 to be many things. Lets take a look at the headlines:
-United Nations declared 2008 to be many things such as the international year of potato (suggestion by [...]

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