FACTBOX - Branson's Virgin Galactic and the quest for space tourism


  • World
  • Saturday, 01 Nov 2014

(Reuters) - A brief look at Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, which suffered a setback on Friday to its plans for a new era of space tourism when its experimental spaceship crashed during a test flight in California:

SpaceShipTwo was designed and built by Scaled Composites, a Mojave, California-based subsidiary of defence contractor Northrop Grumman.

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