Virgin Galactic Delays Its First Flight Yet Again

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After multiple delays, Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight out of New Mexico's Spaceport America has been pushed back once again

Richard Branson's company had previously announced a timeline that showed the first flight starting by the end of 2014. That was only the latest in a series of planned launch dates going back to 2004, when Virgin Galactic said it planned to launch space flights by 2007

Nevertheless, Branson told David Letterman this week he hopes to take the first flight early next spring

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The company has spent years working to overcome challenges developing its craft, SpaceShipTwo, and the plane that will help deliver it to orbit, the WhiteKnightTwo. When New Mexico agreed to build the quarter-billion-dollar spaceport with Virgin Galactic as an anchor tenant, officials predicted flights would start in 2011 Read more...

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