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Richard Branson completes spaceflight in his own ship

Virgin Galactic spaceship Unity carrying a crew of four, including British billionaire Richard Branson, dabbled into space and returned to Earth safely, a live stream of the event showed on Sunday.......

Shirisha Bandla becomes 3rd Indian-American woman to fly into space

Aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla on Sunday became the third Indian-American woman to fly into space when she joined British billionaire Richard Branson on Virgin Galactic's first fully-crewed......

Meet the 3rd Indian-origin woman to go to space

After Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams, Sirisha Bandla will become the third Indian-origin woman to fly into space. IMAGE: Sirisha will be astronaut no 004 and her flight role......

Virgin's test space craft crashes, pilot killed

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rocket explodes in mid-air during a test flight above the Mojave Desert in California. Photograph: Kenneth Brown/Reuters One pilot died and another suffered a......

Stephen Hawking plans a space journey

The world's best-known scientist Stephen Hawking is planning a space flight. "This year I'm planning a zero-gravity flight and to go into space in 2009," Hawking, who celebrates his 65th birthday......

IMAGES: The place where space tourism dreams turn real

Photograph: Kind Courtesy, Virgin Galactic The recent crash of the Virgin Galactic’s space plane raised many questions on the future of space tourism. This, however, did not deter the......

Will Virgin Galactic's crash end space tourism?

The wait for paying passengers to see Earth from the vantage point of space looked a lot longer on Friday, following the fatal crash of Virgin Galactic’s first spaceship, but aspiring space......

On board Richard Branson's SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, announced "LauncherOne", a new air-launched rocket specifically designed to deliver small satellites into orbit. Click NEXT to read...

For Indians, space is the limit now

About a 100 years ago, people would have been making fun of whoever suggested flying from New York to Paris. At a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday, some journalists could be seen talking......

Travel in space @ $200K

A lot has changed since the first man ventured into space in 1961: Pluto is no longer a planet, space tourism is slowly becoming a reality, and NASA just announced it's reviving its mission to......

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Richard Branson completes spaceflight in his own ship

Shirisha Bandla becomes 3rd Indian-American woman to fly into space

Meet the 3rd Indian-origin woman to go to space

Virgin's test space craft crashes, pilot killed

Stephen Hawking plans a space journey

IMAGES: The place where space tourism dreams turn real

Will Virgin Galactic's crash end space tourism?

On board Richard Branson's SpaceShipTwo

For Indians, space is the limit now

Travel in space @ $200K

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