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SpaceShipTwo Unveiled

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
February 19, 2016
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SpaceShipTwo Unveiled

Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic
“Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded space company owned by Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments PJS, today unveiled its newly completed SpaceShipTwo. The rollout ceremony was attended by Sir Richard Branson and his family, Virgin Galactic’s Future Astronauts, and partners. Based on the smaller X-PRIZE winning SpaceShipOne designed by Burt Rutan, SpaceShipTwo is designed to take a crew of two pilots and up to six passengers to space. Virgin Galactic’s space flight experience features an air launch followed by a rocket-powered ascent at three and a half times the speed of sound, the silence of space, several minutes of out-of-seat weightlessness and views of our home planet.”

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2 responses to “SpaceShipTwo Unveiled”

  1. TheBrett says:
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    I’m thinking Bezos is going to beat them in the “suborbital tourism” market.

    • Daniel Woodard says:
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      The Shepard may have advantages in both initial and in recurring cost, since it is entirely liquid fueled, but as yet it is unclear what work is needed to reuse the BO spacecraft. The SS2 hybrid engine requires considerably more work to refuel. However I would not count Virgin out.