Richard Branson’s newest space venture just got hired by the Pentagon for a test launch

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The Pentagon is hiring Richard Branson to launch satellites to orbit.


His Virgin Orbit space company announced Thursday it had won its first military contract: a demonstration flight that would carry “technology demonstration satellites” for the Air Force on its LauncherOne rocket by early 2019.


For years, Branson’s Virgin Galactic has been focused on flying tourists to the edge of space where they’d experience a few minutes of weightlessness and glimpse the Earth from a distance for $250,000 a ticket.


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So much for Ron Paul complaining about SpaceX having a Monopoly..