William Atkins
Tuesday, 08 December 2009 20:26
Science -
Space
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The official rolling out ceremony of Virgin SpaceShip (VSS) Enterprise occurred on Monday, December 7, 2009 at the Mojave Spaceport in California, United States. Watch the video of the historic event in space tourism.
The December 7, 2009
iTWire article “
SpaceShipTwo is ready for its Virgin rollout” describes in more details the official unveiling ceremony of the first SpaceShipTwo by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic.
The rolling out of VSS
Enterprise occurred on Monday, December 7, 2009, in the Mojave Spaceport in California, United States.
Check out the YouTube video of the official unveiling ceremony at “
Branson unveils Virgin spaceship.”
And, learn more about the private space venture of Virgin Galactic at the 12-7-2009 article and video found at Wired.com's website "
SpaceShipTwo Christened - VSS Enterprise."
The very informative video features footage from the 2004 SpaceShipOne flights, along with animation of future flights by SpaceShipTwo.
Virgin Galactic, a part of the Virgin Group, is owned primarily by Branson and secondarily by
Aabar Investments, which is an investment fund owned by the Abu Dhabi city government. Abu Dhabi is the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates, and also its capital city.
The company (Virgin Galactic) expects to provide suborbital spaceflights to paying customers beginning in 2011.
Over the next year and a half, Virgin Galactic will be testing the new spaceplane (VSS
Enterprise), along with its carrier aircraft WhiteKnightTwo, specifically Virgin MotherShip (VMS)
Eve.
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