Article: Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces That Sir Richard Branson Trains for Virgin Galactic Spaceflight at the NASTAR(SM) Center.

SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Environmental Tectonics Corporation ("ETC" or the "Company") today announced that Sir Richard Branson, Founder of the Virgin Group, successfully completed a space flight training course today at the NASTAR(SM) Center, which is the National Aerospace Training and Research Center. He undertook this training in preparation for a flight aboard SpaceShipTwo, the suborbital vehicle his company Virgin Galactic is developing along with Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites.

The test flying program for SpaceShipTwo and its launch aircraft WhiteKnightTwo is expected to begin in the summer of 2008, with SpaceShipTwo likely to ...

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