SpaceShipTwo Unveiled By Virgin Galactic

8:21 pm EST December 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Want to go!

On Monday, Virgin Galactic took the cloak off SpaceShipTwo, which had been under secret development for two years. The company plans to sell suborbital space rides for $200,000 a ticket, offering passengers 2.5 -hour flights that include about five minutes of weightlessness.

‘We want this program to be a whole new beginning in a commercial era of space travel,’ said Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson, who partnered with famed aviation designer Burt Rutan on the venture.

>> SpaceShipTwo unveiling gallery

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6 Responses to “SpaceShipTwo Unveiled By Virgin Galactic”

  1. jrfunkenstein says:
    December 7, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    Sign me up!

    When does BigTooth2 blast off?

    Gotta love Branson; dude is a visionary in so many ways.

  2. cj says:
    December 8, 2009 at 1:57 am

    Sounds cool, but only billionaires will be taking this up. Us average folks will have to wait till 2030(if we’re still around) for cheaper flights.

  3. jrfunkenstein says:
    December 8, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Gotta start somewhere cj.

  4. Dr. Psycho says:
    December 8, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    The automobile was once a toy for “the 400″ once upon a time. And once the world market for computers was “about ten”.

  5. mike in dc says:
    December 8, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    200,000 is still cheaper than the few million it costs to go up on a Russian rocket. If they can get the cost down to about 20 grand, I’d actually consider doing it someday. It would help if it went up a little bit higher and actually went somewhere.

  6. Duros62 says:
    December 8, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Yeah, I could see LA to London in 40 minutes might have some appeal.