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Article: Virgin's space flights to target Aurora Borealis.
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- Sunday Business (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2006
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Byline: Tony Glover
Apr. 9--Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group is planning to offer the most thrilling ride in history -- straight through the Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis.
Virgin's European space centre space will be built at Kiruna in the far north of Sweden -- a place so close to the North Pole that it is near to the Northern Lights, said Will Whitehorn, the president of Virgin Galactic, the Virgin group's space travel arm.
The space centre, Virgin's first in Europe, will begin commercial flights in 2008 with trips through the Aurora Borealis beginning in 2011.
The ship making the flights, SpaceShipTwo, will seat six ...