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Virgin Galactic: We Don’t Anticipate Motion Sickness

May 2, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter When the spaceship Enterprise — Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, not the Star Trek spacecraft — fired its rocket engines for the first time in flight last week, it set off a new frenzy of talk about tourists flying in space. More than [...]

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Video: Watch SpaceShipTwo’s First Feathered Flight

May 19, 2011

On May 4, 2011 Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo achieved a major milestone by flying for the first time using its “feathered” configuration, and the company has now released a close-up video of the flight. Feathering is designed to create drag and slow the ship down after it reenters the atmosphere from eventual suborbital flights taking tourists [...]

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SpaceShipTwo Successfully Tests “Feathered” Flight

May 4, 2011

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo achieved a major milestone early Wednesday 4th May 2011, as it successfully demonstrated its unique reentry ‘feather’ configuration for the first time. This test flight, the third in less than two weeks, brings powered test flights and — ultimately — commercial operations a step closer. Remove this ad

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Virgin Galactic

November 2, 2010

Virgin Galactic is the company that is part of Richard Branson’s Virgin group of companies including hotels, airlines, and cellular phone service. Virgin Galactic is a company with a focus on private space travel. Its main offering is private trips to space on the SpaceShipTwo a privately designed and funded space craft based on SpaceShipOne [...]

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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Makes First Glide Flight

October 10, 2010

Does this image look futuristic? Well, the future is here, as this is an actual image from October 10, 2010 (today!) Virgin Galactic’s future passenger ship made its first manned glide flight on Sunday. SpaceShipTwo’s unpowered flighted lasted about 11 minutes after the spacecraft was released from its White Knight Two mother ship, Eve, at [...]

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