They'll take us to the stars
The new ship, to which the physicist Stephen Hawking baptized with the name of Virgin Spaceship (VSS) Unity , you can carry a total of eight people: two pilots and six passengers They will enjoy a high-speed flight through space, the company explains in a statement.
With the VSS Unity fully assembled, The Spaceship Company (the production arm of Virgin Galactic) will focus on verification systems and tests , both ground and airborne, in Mojave, California, followed by ground and air exercises in New Mexico. At the moment, there is no set date for the completion of the first commercial flight.
"Allowing people to go into space and look and marvel at the Earth is in itself a game changer for those people," he explained. Richard Branson , at the head of the Virgin empire and founder of Virgin Galactic, told AJ+.
Marvel and be impressed
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