Virgin Galactic had, prior to this week's accident, seemed closest to starting regular flights.

在本周事故发生前，维珍银河公司似乎离开始定期飞行仅有咫尺之遥。

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On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plotting a bottom-up assault on the space dream by making it a reality to the public.

另一方面，维珍银河等公司正在策划对太空梦发动一场自下而上的袭击，让普通大众也能够实现自己的太空邀游梦想。

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In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive of space-tourism firm Virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter category.

在去年接受《经济学人》采访时，太空旅游公司维珍银河的首席执行官乔治·怀特赛兹将他的公司归为后一类。

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Now he has joined with aviation designer Burt Rutan to form a new space travel company, Virgin Galactic.

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Virgin Galactic expects to spend more than four hundred million dollars for five commercial spaceships and launch vehicles.

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Yet Virgin Galactic is expected to be the first to operate its spacecraft.

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Virgin Galactic, Branson's bet that relatively low-cost space tourism will be available--and popular--in the near future.

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As long as 10 years before I had dreamt the name Virgin Galactic Airways.

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Branson's Virgin Galactic hopes to take paying passengers on three-hour suborbital flights by early 2009.

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