Posted Jan 23rd 2008 4:20PM by Evan Blass
Filed under: Transportation
As expected,
Sir Richard Branson has just unveiled the final designs of
SpaceShipTwo and White Knight Two, Virgin Galactic's planned commercial "spaceliner" and its corresponding carrier plane. At today's American Museum of Natural History launch event, Branson once again reiterated his lofty expectations for space tech in general and the six-passenger vehicle in particular, promising to promote privatization and more widespread research by offering outside organizations access to its launch system schematics. So far, Virgin has reportedly signed up 200 committed passengers willing to pay $200,000 for a 2010-or-later
suborbital flight, but for now, all they can do is look at the pretty pictures in the gallery below.
No comments:
Post a Comment