First Look at SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic will unveil SpaceShipTwo (SS2), Monday night, but they did sneak out a few photos prior to the event. SS2 will be the world's first commercial manned spaceship, with room for several passengers to move (and fly!) around during suborbital flights. "This is truly a momentous day. The team has created not only a world first but also a work of art," said Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic founder. Burt Rutan, the designer of SpaceShipOne which won the Ansari X PRIZE in 2004 for completing the world’s first manned private space flights said, "All of us at Scaled Composites are tremendously excited by the capabilities of both the mothership and SS2."
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