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Flightglobal Achievement Awards 09: Innovator of the year - Sir Richard Branson - Virgin visionary
www.flightglobal.com | Nov 14, 2009
...planned around the turn of the year. WhiteKnightTwo - the double-hulled, all-composite...WhiteKnightTwos and five SpaceShipTwos. The WhiteKnightTwo carrier ship releases SpaceShipTwo...satellite-carrying capability on WhiteKnightTwo. Virgin Galactic expects that eventually...
Virgin spaceship to take visitors into suborbital space
www.space-travel.com | Dec 9, 2009
...of the space ship, Burt Rutan. The futuristic-looking craft is composed of two parts -- the SpaceShipTwo and the WhiteKnightTwo, the prototype of which has been dubbed Virgin MotherShip Eve in a tribute to Branson's mother. The craft, emblazoned...
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Virgin_spaceship_to_take_visitors_into_suborbital_space_999.html
Burt Rutan: Behind the scenes at SpaceShipTwo roll-out
www.newscientist.com | Dec 8, 2009
...Atmospheric music and a dramatic light show set the mood as SpaceShipTwo loomed into view slung under its mother ship, WhiteKnightTwo, the aircraft that will carry it to high altitude for launch. Branson's daughter smashed a bottle of champagne across...
AOPA Online: Virgin unveils SpaceShipTwo
www.aopa.org | Dec 8, 2009
...unveiled with its mother ship, WhiteKnightTwo, at sundown at Mojave...flights with SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo, which was unveiled in 2008 and has been undergoing testing. WhiteKnightTwo, the largest all-composite...
http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2009/091208virginspace.html
America's 1st Commercial Spaceport Blooms in the Desert
www.space.com | Jan 28, 2010
...Enterprise, its first suporbital spaceliner, attached to the WhiteKnightTwo Eve carrier craft on Dec. 7, 2009 in Mojave, Calif...fly ticket-holding tourists to the edge of space via the WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo launch system. Cross-wind worries...
BBC News - Richard Branson unveils Virgin Galactic spaceplane
news.bbc.co.uk | Dec 8, 2009
...be the first to market, barring any problems arising in the test campaign. SpaceShipTwo's carrier plane is called WhiteKnightTwo (WK2). It was finished last year and has already begun its own trials. Comparison of SS1 and SS2 Spaceport America...
Commercial Spaceship Roll-Out Revs Space Tourism.
planenews.com | Dec 8, 2009
...Tourism · News by gil Most read story about Space Business and Tourism: Virgin Galactic's July 28 rollout of WhiteKnightTwo. Article Rating Average Score: 0 Votes: 0 Please take a second and vote for this article: Excellent ...
http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10995
Virgin Galactic Rolls Out SpaceShipTwo
www.avweb.com | Dec 9, 2009
...spaceship, which holds six passengers and two pilots, will start flight tests early next year. SS2 was rolled out mated to its WhiteKnightTwo carrier vehicle, which has already been flying for about a year and has mostly finished its flight-test phase...
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/VirginGalacticRollsOutSpaceShipTwo_201658-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
SpaceShipTwo Readied For Testing
www.aviationweek.com | Dec 9, 2009
...prototype SS2 was transported to the specially constructed unveiling site at a remote corner of the airfield in darkness beneath the WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) mothership, marking its first taxiing captive carry test. The vehicle, which was named VSS Enterprise...
Virgin Galactic to debut new spaceship
albuquerque.bizjournals.com | Dec 7, 2009
...progress towards our goal of safe commercial operation.” Scaled Composites already began test flights last year for WhiteKnightTwo, the mothership that will carry SpaceShipTwo partway to space on its underbelly. When the mothership reaches 50,000...
