Space tourists and citizen astronauts rejoice! A new suborbital spacecraft is about to be introduced that will fly ticketholders on brief, suborbital journeys just above Earth.
Virgin Galactic plans to unveil its first Delta-class spaceship on Wednesday (Oct. 28), before transporting the spacecraft from Mesa, Arizona, to Spaceport America in New Mexico. Alongside that reveal, the company will also announce the spacecraft's name, selected through a public vote held across more than 80 countries.
Following its debut, the Delta-class vehicle will journey to the spaceport attached to Virgin Galactic's VMS Eve carrier aircraft, marking a transition from assembly to the beginning of official flight testing. "The arrival of our lead Spaceship at Spaceport America will be an enormous milestone in a years-long journey to build the world's first human spaceship platform designed for regular commercial spaceflight," said Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier in Read Entire Article
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