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Virgin Galactic, a subsidiary of the Virgin Group, is constructing space ships that are designed to run in part on alternative fuels.
Over the past few months, pilots have conducted several test flights of the space-launch vehicle Eve. Eve's jet engines will run on kerosene initially but are also capable of running on butanol, a biofuel that can be made from algae.
‘The [carbon] cost of us putting someone into space will be less than flying to London and back on a commercial plane,’ Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Group, says.
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