Last Thursday, the NBC network together with Virgin Galactic and the "ONE THREE MEDIA" company of the creator of "Survival" and "The Voice" announced the collaboration that gave birth to the new series
On the way to commercial flights to space: the NBC television network together with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Mark Burnett's "ONE THREE MEDIA" are launching a new television program, centered on a "Space Race" competition that will buy the winner a plane ticket to a trip that only a few have had the chance to experience - Flight into space.
Last Thursday, the NBC network together with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, the company that produces the first commercial spacecraft into space, and Mark Burnett's "ONE THREE MEDIA" company ("Survival", "The Voice"), announced a collaboration , in the center of which NBC will begin airing a new unscripted series called "Space Race".
The new program, "Space Race", 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 the space ship "SpaceShipTwo" of Virgin Galactic and its partner aabar Investments .
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, which is located in the Mojave Desert in New Mexico, which is the point of departure, 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 scope of this mission is so vast, it took two giant titans to imagine it into reality," explains Paul Talladey, president of alternative programming and late-night programming at NBC, "the term 'trip of a lifetime' is indeed presented here for the first time. This will be an extraordinary experience for everyone who has looked to the sky and dreamed of space flights."
Sir Richard Branson explains that "Virgin Galactic's mission is to democratize space, which will ultimately result in commercial space flights being accessible and affordable to everyone."
"This is an experience that is without a doubt unique, extraordinary and even life-changing," explains Aliron Yaron, chairman of the "Galactic Dreamline" company that markets flight tickets to space in Israel on Virgin Galactic's first commercial spacecraft. "The development of commercial flights to space is exciting, this program is definitely innovative and groundbreaking, and it will surely increase awareness of the issue and therefore also the purchase of tickets."
"For the past ten years, I've dreamed of the possibility of creating a television show that would give the everyday viewer the opportunity to experience the black sky of space and look down at Mother Earth," explains Mark Brent, "people will be able to watch the show on TV at home as if they had purchased first class tickets on a flight."
Virgin Galactic, owned by Sir Richard Branson, is a subsidiary of the global concern Virgin, which develops private spaceships for commercial and tourist purposes. The company is going to be the first spacecraft operator in the world for commercial space flights. Virgin Galactic's base and headquarters are located at Spaceport America in the Mojave Desert in New Mexico.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvUFmcOODcw
An article about the project on the NTDTV network
Company website: http://www.virgingalactic.com
