Tuesday 8 December 2009

"Space. The final frontier..."


Mojave, California was the stage today for the latest offering from the Virgin empire with the first look at the Virgin Galactic spacecraft that promises future space travel for all...

The sleek, bullet-shaped spacecraft is about the size of a large business jet - with wide windows and seats for six well-heeled passengers to take a thrill ride into space...

It's billed as the world's first commercial spaceship, designed to be carried aloft by an exotic jet before firing its rocket engine to climb beyond the Earth's atmosphere...

In a Hollywood-style rollout, Virgin Galactic on Monday took the cloak off SpaceShipTwo, which had been under secret development for two years in the Mojave Desert...

The company plans to sell suborbital space rides for $200,000 a ticket, offering passengers 2 1/2-hour flights that include about five minutes of weightlessness...

Blaring music and a laser show heralded the rollout of SpaceShipTwo as it glided down a runway mated to its mothership and came to a stop before a throng of wannabe astronauts, dignitaries and VIPs who shivered in the desert cold for the splashy unveil...

To find out more, please go to http://www.examiner.com/a-2359904~Virgin_Galactic_unveils_commercial_spaceship.html?cid=rss-US

Barticus.

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