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Article: Virgin Galactic unveils mothership
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 29, 2008
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MOJAVE, Calif. -- The space tourism race marked a milestone
Monday as British mogul Sir Richard Branson and American aerospace
designer Burt Rutan waved to a crowd from inside the cabin of an
exotic jet that will carry a passenger spaceship to launch altitude.
The photo-op was the public unveiling of the White Knight Two
mothership before a crowd of engineers, dignitaries and space
enthusiasts at the Mojave Air & Space Port in the high desert north
of Los Angeles.
The four-engine jet, with its 140-foot single wing, is an
engineering marvel. The space between its twin fuselages is where
SpaceShipTwo, the passenger rocket being built for Branson's Virgin
Galactic, will be mounted.
White Knight ...