The First Commercial Spacecraft from Virgin Galactic
Posted on January 23, 2008
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company has unveiled its design for SpaceShipTwo. SpaceShipTwo is very likely to be the first spaceship that offers a commercial flight into space.
As the New York Times explains the trip, SpaceShipTwo is ferried into space by a much larger two-fuselage, four-engine plane called WhiteKnightTwo.
This is London says commercial flights could begin as early as 2009. There is no information on how much a flight would cost but the article says 200 potential astronauts have made deposits of $100,000 to over $200,000. Virgin Galactic has a FAQ on its website explaining how this trip to outer space will be perfectly safe.
Virgin Galactic also created an animation of SpaceShipTwo.
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