Category: space tourism

Virgin Galactic’s reusable spaceflight system is made up of two vehicles: the SpaceShipTwo spaceplane and the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft.Photo: Virgin Galactic Nearly two years after its last flight, Virgin Galactic—the space tourism venture founded by Richard Branson, another billionaire who loves space—aborted the scheduled test launch of its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into suborbital space today …

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