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Article: Galactic adventures: would you like to travel on SpaceShipTwo?(Virgin Galactic's spacecraft)(Brief article)
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- Junior Scholastic
- Article date:
- March 10, 2008
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Getting a little bored with Disney World? How about a flight into space? If British billionaire Richard Branson has his way, the outer limits might soon be a prime tourist destination.
Branson's Virgin Galactic company is building a revolutionary new passenger vehicle, SpaceShipTwo. The spacecraft will transport six paying customers at a time to more than 62 miles above the planet.
How will it work? The craft will be lifted from Earth by a piggyback ride on a "mother ship." Then it will use its own rocket to climb at more than three times the speed of sound. Finally, it will cut off its rocket and take a long glide back to ...