Virgin Galactic Venture into space

Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire CEO of Virgin Group, was shot in the head a few years ago with his latest adventure spacey. Branson plans to give eager astronauts improvised a sub-orbital ride into space through its air/space-craft Virgin Galactic. This space tourism industry was founded in 2004 and was run in New Mexico, USA, with Branson leading the charge.

Around 2002, was launched a contest to see which company could produce an aircraft that could fly into suborbital space travel, return to Earth and make the trip again. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, was part of the project Mojave Aerospace Ventures who won the competition of 10 million dollars in 2004. SpaceShipOne takes their craft and Branson immediately was trying to overcome it.

Branson has helped create SpaceShipTwo, a lighter, faster, able to fly higher, carry more passengers. It was released to the public in December 2009, and is still in testing to ensure that enough good is designed to carry people into orbit and return again and again without incident. The ship is now called the VSS (Virgin SpaceShip).

Space has always been the final frontier, and there was a time in human history, when exploration of this mysterious and unsettling universe was atop the list of things to do. How many children, Branson admits to feeling always an attraction to the space. The hope is that Virgin Galactic will change what we know about air travel.

Branson is not one to shy away from problems. He wants to Virgin Galactic, in case of success with the sub-orbital trajectory, to start offering full orbital launch. The difference between the two, simply explained, is that a sub-orbital space doesn't have the height or the trajectory to completely orbit around the Earth. Never make enough outside the atmosphere, although it is still technically "space".

Once the aircraft is in the exosphere, with no oxygen and no immediate gravitation, guests aboard Virgin Galactic will experience weightlessness for a few minutes and see a complete view of outer space that isn't tainted by our atmosphere. The aircraft will fly about .25 quickly around the Earth and then re-enter the atmosphere, turn and go home.

With a flight scheduled for the future orbito, hope will be to increase the lightness actually flying past exosphere and entering orbit, on the same trajectory flying satellites. Back home, one will be fired to the ship to return to the atmosphere, just as navette go home now.

The price for the vision of Branson isn't going to be in no way cheap. There is already a flight to Europe that allows people to experience gravity in the plane for a few thousand dollars, but to see the space, passengers must pay around 200,000 dollars a piece. So far, more than 300 people have signed up to pay the rent and take flight.