When and where was Virgin Galactic unveils its latest thrill ride spaceshiptwo lately?
This morning, Richard Branson’s spaceship startup Virgin Galactic unveiled the second design of its suborbital vehicles, SpaceShipTwo and White Knight Two. I am blogging this from the press conference at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. SpaceShipTwo is what the passengers will actually ride in, and White Knight Two is the launch vehicle that carries it to a high altitude before releasing the rocket. (It takes less energy to launch from 50,000 feet than from the ground). The design is a little bit different than the initial SpaceShipOne and White Knight One. Both are all carbon-composite vehicles, and are designed with an open architecture so that in the future other companies can use it as a foundation to create space vehicles for unmanned missions. White Knight Two is a double-hulled launch plane with four engines from Pratt & Whitney. Branson suggests that if Virgin Galactic can prove the commercial viability of space flight, it will unlock a “wall of investment that c
Of course you must have heard of Virgin Galactic, right? Billionaire British entrepreneur Richard Branson’s latest pet project that has been going on for the last few years which will be taking paying passengers to space and back sometime in the next one-two years. The spaceship that will be taking these passengers was being designed and built by aerospace designer Burt Rutan’s company, Scaled Composites. Today’s unveiling marks the first chance for outsiders to get a peek at the new rocket plane, which has been in development shrouded in secrecy for the last few years. Commenting on the unveiling, Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Galactic said: “This is truly a momentous day. The team has created not only a world first but also a work of art. The official rollout will be available exclusively for the would-be passengers who have paid $200,000 for their suborbital flight to space. The VSS Enterprise, an eight person SpaceShipTwo-class vehicle ( six passengers, two crew ) is named
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