Posted on 05/20/2011 8:26:27 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
Early on Wednesday 4th May 2011, in the skies above Mojave Air and Spaceport CA, SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial spaceship, demonstrated its unique reentry ‘feather’ configuration for the first time. This test flight, the third in less than two weeks, marks another major milestone on the path to powered test flights and commercial operations. SpaceShipTwo (SS2), named VSS Enterprise, has now flown solo seven times since its public roll-out in December 2009 and since the completion of its ground and captive -carry test program. This latest flight saw a 6:43AM (local) runway take off for VSS Enterprise, attached to its WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier aircraft, VMS Eve
(Excerpt) Read more at virgingalactic.com ...
Way to go, Burt, Scaled crew & Virgin Galactic. Now to figure out where I can get $200K for a ticket!
Excellent post!
Amazing!!! Just like a big ol’ beautiful bird, she is :)
Thank you for the great post.
Thank you Lord, for the inspiration from the birds, and for our brains ; }
Tatt
ping
That was amazing thanks for the post.
aviation pinglist (commercial spaceplane)
Video is pretty neat.
The US government maybe trying to retreat from space, but I’m glad to see this!
barry´s not going to like this at all....
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