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Branson unveils space tourism craft ‘WhiteKnightTwo’
From the article:
The high-altitude aircraft, also named “Eve” in honor of Branson’s mother, will act as the mothership for the spacecraft Spaceship Two, which in turn will launch in midair and send two crew and six passengers hurtling into space.
The first flights of WhiteKnightTwo are expected to take place later this year, with Spaceship Two being attached for a maiden flight sometime in 2009.
Here’s what White Knight 2 looks like:
And an animation of a typical “flight”:
Here’s a look at the original announcement in January:
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