Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo


Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic have unveiled their new tourist spaceship, SpaceShipTwo. Test flights are planned for next year, with commercial passengers being taken into space as early as 2009. Read more about Virgin Galactic & SpaceShipTwo >>



A CGI depiction of a hypothetical flight in the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, from take-off while mated to the carrier craft, through boost phase, then the ballistic phase where passengers can float freely in space, then reconfiguration for re-entry, then the return flight, and finally the landing back at the spaceport.

Link: http://www.virgingalactic.com


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