40 years ago today, on July 20th, 1969, the human race landed on the moon for the first time. Richard Branson, business mogul, has a company trying to develop spaceships that will take you to space and back for a small fee. In the millions actually. The project is called Virgin Galactic.
"WHAT IS VIRGIN GALACTIC?
Virgin Galactic is a company owned and established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group to undertake the challenge of making private space travel available to everyone and by creating the world's first commercial spaceline.
Virgin will own and operate privately built spaceships, based on the history making SpaceShipOne . These spaceships, which are currently under construction, will allow affordable private sub-orbital space travel for the first time in history and give you the opportunity of being amongst the very first private astronauts."
Read full article on Virgin Galactic here.
Internet mogul Google came up with Google Moon. Google Moon allows you to view the moon and get charts/data that was taken in the past. Similarily, Google has released Google Earth, and Google Mars.
These robust pieces of software allow us to see something that people 40 years ago could not even fathom.
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