Virgin Galactic Tourist Spaceship will blast off in 2013

Virgin chief Richard Branson has put a calculate frame on his plan to launch tourists into interval, claiming he and his family will burn a trail for hundreds of fare-paying passengers by blasting off in December 2013.

Branson also announced with the intention of Virgin Galactic, his fledgling money-making space company, was expanding to contain a satellite-launching service with the intention of would use a low-cost rocket logic to propel payloads into orbit.

The British industrialist said his adult children, Holly and Sam, would accompany him on enter the SpaceShipTwo on its pioneering two-hour trek into sub-orbital space.

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