SpaceShipTwo Unveiled

[Farbin Kaiber]

Docked, the larger plane, WhiteNightTwo holds SpaceShipTwo between it's duel fuselage's.


Detaching...


Rocket powered, it climbs to 62.1+ miles above the earth...


Complete trip, 2.5 hours.


Comparo with SpaceShipOne that won the Ansari X Prize for $10m, being the first private owned launch into space...


Who needs words when there is a picture of composites?


Lots of viewports.




The Official Unveiling is later today... Thought I'd get you all started in the meantime.

[Matt-B]

cant see like 4 of the pics

but cool nontheless

[Farbin Kaiber]

Which ones?

http://news.discovery.com/space/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-flight.html

linky nonetheless.

[ben312]

1 2 3 & 5

which ones?

[Matt-B]

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that thing is badass

[Farbin Kaiber]

Pics up yet?

[nfshot]

they all work for me

[e36hb]

way tight!

[LBJefferies]

Its pretty rad. Hopefully at some point in our lives this will become affordable.

[Farbin Kaiber]

$200,000 was the down payment on a single ticket, they presold 300 so far.

[george graves]

Fucking Rutan is the man. But there is something about his designs that I don't like - appearance wise that is. They don't seem to have a soul or something. Not like the planes of WWII. I guess none of that matters except how it looks in a wind tunnel. /rant

[stevofthahill]

If I'm able to go into space before I die, I will die a happy person.

[Raxe]

Very cool.

[Philo]

Who wants to go first? . . . . Yay. . . whoops. . . uh-oh. . . bye bye.

I would much rather blow the $200k to see the world I live in rather than look at it (and a bunch of nothing) from a distance.

In a sense of forward progress on expansion and what-not, it's pretty cool. They should use Recaro's for the seats. lol

[mrsleeve]

hey cool,