Virgin Galactic Joins Two CCDev Teams

By Frank Morring, Jr.

Virgin Galactic plans to market orbital flights for space tourists and scientists on two spaceplanes proposed under NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) effort, in the hope it can expand its business beyond the suborbital flights it is planning on its SpaceShipTwo vehicle.

The company has signed on as a teammate with both Orbital Sciences Corp. and Sierra Nevada Corp. in the second ...

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