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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, christened VSS Enterprise, has completed her second (2nd) successful captive carry flight in Mojave, California on Sunday 16may10! TEST RESULTS: Flight WK2 Flight 27 / CC-02 Date: 16 May 10 Flight Time: 4.7 hr Pilot: Siebold CoPilot: Stucky FTE: Maisler Objectives: SS2 pressurization evaluation SS2 electrical system evaluation SS2 avionics performance evaluation SS2 approaches Post-Flight cold soaked systems testing Results: All objectives achieved. SS2 was pressurized and powered from the mothership in flight. Peak altitude was 51,000 ft which allowed for a long cold-soak to evaluate the robustness of the hardware. A simulated Spaceship decent/glide mission was made from altitude to high key. Several approaches followed for pilot training/proficiency. This is now happening! Please reserve YOUR seat today to be with... read more

STATUS UPDATE: SPACEPORT AMERICA, NEW MEXICO - VIRGIN GALACTIC HEADQUARTERS! Feb. 2010 On June 19th of 2009 ground was broken on a project of historic proportions. Construction has been progressing on a 10,000-foot long, 200-foot wide runway designed to handle any flying vehicle on the planet or returning from space! As of this week, 50% of the asphalt has been laid. That is the third layer of a four-layer process. Next and last will be a 14-inch thick layer of concrete, which is projected to finish off the runway by mid summer. Appropriately enough, the project has been sped along with the precision assistance of satellites! Rapid construction of the terminal will begin soon. In fact, if you were to drive up to Spaceport America in December 2010, you would see the finished airfield, taxiway and ... read more

MIAMI’S OWN BEVERLY S ROTHER FROM FOREST TRAVEL AGENCY, A MEMBER OF VIRTUOSO®, WITNESSED THE UNVEILING OF VIRGIN GALACTIC’S SPACESHIPTWO, THE WORLD’S FIRST COMMERCIAL MANNED SPACESHIP Accredited Space Agent Rother Among the Select Guests Who Attended the World Debut of SpaceShip2 (SS2) MOJAVE AIR AND SPACEPORT, CA (December 7, 2009) - Rother from Forest Travel, a member of leading luxury travel network Virtuoso®, joined Virgin CEO and Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceshipOne (SS1) designer, Burt Rutan, on December 7, 2009, for the reveal of SS2. This was the first unveiling to the public since construction of the world’s first manned commercial spaceship began in 2007. SS2 has been designed to take many thousands of private astronauts into space after test programming and all required U.S. government licensing and regulatory approvals have been completed. As t ... read more