Friday, 6 April 2018

Virgin Galactic Spaceplane Makes First Powered Flight Since Deadly 2014 Disaster

Earlier today, the VSS Unity went supersonic during crewed tests, reaching speeds of 1,220 miles per hour. It’s the first powered flight of Virgin Galactic’s new SpaceShipTwo aircraft, and the first flight since the 2014 disaster in which a pilot was killed and a co-pilot severely injured.

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from Gizmodo http://bit.ly/2Hdne0O

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