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Virgin Galactic ramps up space tourism plans, with new spaceplane set to fly paying customers to the edge of space by 2026. After a two-year hiatus, the company is resuming commercial flights, with ground tests starting in April and flight trials in New Mexico. The upgraded Delta class ship, now called SpaceShip, can handle up to eight missions a month, offering quicker turnarounds. Tickets are reopening soon, with prices running into hundreds of thousands of dollars. The company is also planning research missions and a student flight, aiming to make space tourism a reality again.

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