Strap In: What It’s Like to fly on SpaceShipTwo After a three-day training program, passengers will leave Virgin’s terminal at the newly built Spaceport America, located near Las Cruces, NM, and climb aboard SpaceShipTwo, which they’ll find hanging beneath the twin-boomed White Knight carrier aircraft. The six-passenger, two-pilot vehicle is based on the prize-winning SpaceShipOne prototype, which now hangs in the Smithsonian Institution’s Air & Space Museum. Their fliers won’t go far — just 65 miles or so above the southern New Mexico launch site — and they won’t be gone long. The supersonic sprint beyond the atmosphere will last only a few minutes. Virgin Galactic is betting that the ride, albeit short, is sweet enough to warrant its $200,000 fare. As of last week, 545 people had put down deposits or paid the full fee to find out for themselves.read more…

Strap In: What It’s Like to fly on SpaceShipTwo

After a three-day training program, passengers will leave Virgin’s terminal at the newly built Spaceport America, located near Las Cruces, NM, and climb aboard SpaceShipTwo, which they’ll find hanging beneath the twin-boomed White Knight carrier aircraft.

The six-passenger, two-pilot vehicle is based on the prize-winning SpaceShipOne prototype, which now hangs in the Smithsonian Institution’s Air & Space Museum.

Their fliers won’t go far — just 65 miles or so above the southern New Mexico launch site — and they won’t be gone long. The supersonic sprint beyond the atmosphere will last only a few minutes.

Virgin Galactic is betting that the ride, albeit short, is sweet enough to warrant its $200,000 fare. As of last week, 545 people had put down deposits or paid the full fee to find out for themselves.

read more…

Source: news.discovery.com

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