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Dantheman62 · 12-07-2009, 07:10 PM

A scale model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo in 2008 at the America Museum of Natural History in New York. British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space -- for a mere 200,000 dollars.

An interior view of SpaceShipTwo's cabin is shown under construction at the Scaled Composites facility in Mojave, California in this 2009 publicity photograph. Scaled Composites is building the ship for Virgin Galactic which is set to unveil SpaceShipTwo, December 7, 2009 at the Mojave Spaceport in Mojave, California. The six-passenger vehicle will undergo test flights in 2010 and start commercial flights between 2011 and 2012.

12-07-2009, 07:10 PM	#3
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Re: Virgin Galactic to unveil commercial spaceship A scale model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo in 2008 at the America Museum of Natural History in New York. British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space -- for a mere 200,000 dollars. An interior view of SpaceShipTwo's cabin is shown under construction at the Scaled Composites facility in Mojave, California in this 2009 publicity photograph. Scaled Composites is building the ship for Virgin Galactic which is set to unveil SpaceShipTwo, December 7, 2009 at the Mojave Spaceport in Mojave, California. The six-passenger vehicle will undergo test flights in 2010 and start commercial flights between 2011 and 2012.