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NBC will broadcast Virgin Galactic's maiden flight live, with Richard Branson and his family in attendance

As recalled in October, the NBC network together with the Virgin Galactic company and Mark Burnett's "ONE THREE MEDIA" company ("Survival", "The Voice") announced a collaboration, in the center of which NBC will start broadcasting a new reality series called: "Space Race".

Landing test, SPACESHIPTWO, October 2010. Photo: PR, Virgin Galactic
Landing test, SPACESHIPTWO, October 2010. Photo: PR, Virgin Galactic

NBC and Virgin Galactic in a historic collaboration: The television network will televise the first commercial space flight in Virgin Galactic's history, in which Richard Branson and his adult children, Holly and Sam, will take part as passengers

A month after announcing the joint production of a new reality show, "The Space Race", the lucky winner of which will win a dream prize - a plane ticket to the first private spaceship, SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic and the NBC network are deepening their collaboration: Sir Richard Branson, owners of Virg Yen, announced over the weekend that the first private space flight will be broadcast in a special television special that will include all the channels of the American television giant.

"We are excited that the people of NBC are joining us on the historic journey to space," said Richard Branson, "In the first episode of commercial space flights, we will make space more accessible and inspire countless people to join us in the race for space discovery and scientific innovation."

In October, the NBC network together with the Virgin Galactic company and Mark Burnett's "ONE THREE MEDIA" company ("Survival", "The Voice") announced a collaboration, in the center of which NBC will start broadcasting a new reality series called: "Space Race". The new program "Space Race" (Space Race, the race to space), is a competitive reality series that includes eliminations and a single winner, in which ordinary people will compete for the first prize of its kind in the world: a trip to space on Virgin Galactic's "SpaceShipTwo" spacecraft.

In the new program Space Race, for the first time viewers will have extraordinary access and a glimpse of "America" ​​- Virgin Galactic's innovative and advanced space base, located in the Mojave Desert in New Mexico, which is the launch point, the mother and training base, as well as the preparation center for commercial space flights. As part of the program, the competition will be recorded all the time on camera and will be broadcast to the viewers.

"The planned takeoff from the first private space port in New Mexico is not only a historic moment, it is the stuff dreams are made of," says Eliron Yaron, chairman of the "Galactic Dreamline" company that markets Virgin Galactic's flight tickets to space in Israel, "this is a televised moment A classic, and there is no doubt that several ratings records will be broken when the Branson family board the first private spaceship."

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  1. For over 5 years, Virgin Galactic and other companies have been promising the first commercial flight into space. It was originally supposed to be in the previous decade they even did a lottery for some of the tickets, there are elderly people who bought tickets for flights that probably won't survive until the flight

  2. Exactly what I came to write... after all this text the writer did not see fit to indicate when it was supposed to happen. tomorrow? In a week? in two years?

    Only for writing solutions.

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