Virgin Galactic spaceship makes first glide flight

The new SpaceShipTwo, dubbed VSS Unity, was hoisted aloft by carrier airplane WhiteKnightTwo VMS Eve from the Mojave Air & Space Port in California, the company said on Twitter.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-12-virgin-galactic-spaceship-glide-flight.html#jCp

CrazyNeutrino said:

Virgin Galactic spaceship makes first glide flight

The new SpaceShipTwo, dubbed VSS Unity, was hoisted aloft by carrier airplane WhiteKnightTwo VMS Eve from the Mojave Air & Space Port in California, the company said on Twitter.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-12-virgin-galactic-spaceship-glide-flight.html#jCp

“deadly crash of its predecessor two years ago”. “SpaceShipTwo is a commercial version of SpaceShipOne, the first private spacecraft to reach the edge of space in 2004.” “The company’s goal is to take tourists to the edge of space, more than 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth. The new craft may someday carry six passengers on three-hour suborbital flights, offering them the possibility of momentary weightlessness and unparalleled views of Earth. Despite the hefty $250,000 price tag, more than 600 would-be astronauts have already signed up”.

Count me in, even at that price. But I’ll wait until the queue has thinned out a bit.