Virgin Galactic Spaceship First Flight VSS Enterprise Captive Carry Flight Test
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Uploaded by airboyd on Mar 23, 2010
Courtesy: Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic announced today that VSS Enterprise has completed her inaugural captive carry flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport.
This very first captive carry was a huge success and both the mothership and spaceship looked absolutely stunning against the blue back drop of the Mojave skies.
Commenting on the historic flight, Burt Rutan said: This is a momentous day for the Scaled and Virgin Teams. The captive carry flight signifies the start of what we believe will be extremely exciting and successful spaceship flight test program.
Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Galactic added: Seeing the finished spaceship in December was a major day for us but watching VSS Enterprise fly for the first time really brings home what beautiful, ground-breaking vehicles Burt and his team have developed for us. It comes as no surprise that the flight went so well; the Scaled team is uniquely qualified to bring this important and incredible dream to reality. Today was another major step along that road and a testament to US engineering and innovation.
The VSS Enterprise test flight programme will continue though 2010 and 2011, progressing from captive carry to independent glide and then powered flight, prior to the start of commercial operations.
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pack some brownies
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@SquareHeads09 5 BILLION HUMANS NOT SORTED
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i couldn't afford it but 200k seems good to go into space for 10mins or so !
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@TheWinMacLinTechie other companies have done this already...
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@SquareHeads09 It's january 2012!!! AND NOTHING HAPPENG!!!!!!!!
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Who says planes can't have threesomes? Because, frankly, I have to object.
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Let's get rich fast, maybe i'll see ya in space one day haha! :)
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I wish I could :)
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Thanks for the answers to my questions! but wow! what an amazing machine isn't it?
Now my last question is...
Can someone give me the 200.000,- ? 8-)
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Space: The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Virgin ship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to bring civilians up into space, to revolutionize the travel industry, to boldly do what no company has done before.
TheWinMacLinTechie 7 months ago 27
2012 = Sorted
SquareHeads09 9 months ago 26