Virgin Galactic unveils spaceship

British billionaire Richard Branson and AeroSpace designer Burt Rutan with SpaceshipTwo



...........................................A Close look at SpaceShipTwo





Virgin Galactic released a prototype of its upcoming spaceship which would be carrying rich tourists into space ..

Owner of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson and the AeroSpace designer Burt Rutan unveiled a model SpaceShipTwo . A four-engine jet will launch the jet into space .

Though the space travel would be costing a whooping $2,00,000 it is said that already 200 passengers from 30 different countries have already made reservations.

The twin-fuselage airplane, called the White Knight Two, will carry SpaceShipTwo high into the sky beneath a single 140-foot wing.

The spacecraft would then separate from the plane and rocket into suborbital space, where as many as six passengers and two crew members could unbuckle themselves and experience weightlessness and an unparalleled view before gliding back to Earth.

Passengers would get about 4 1/2 minutes of zero-gravity time, floating about a ship roughly the size of a Falcon 900 executive jet, before returning to their seats.

Virgin Galactic, insisted the project is no pipe dream , construction on the White Knight Two is already more than 70 percent complete. SpaceShipTwo is about 60 percent complete, and the company hopes to begin test flights by this summer.

With the amount of risks involved and the rising curiorsity among people in spacetravel we need to wait and see and in no way can predict its results .....



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