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

VOA: special.2009.12.18

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

VOA: special.2009.12.18

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

VOA: special.2009.12.18

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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