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Virgin brings quasi-astronauts one step closer to space
It’s not a bird, or a plane -- it’s a carbon-composite sub-orbital vehicle!
Virgin Galactic showed off its newest carrier aircraft, the WhiteKnightTwo, to media and pre-booked passengers at the Mojave Air and Space Port north of Los Angeles. Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson has named the vehicle Eve after his mother.
Launched amid typical Branson fanfare, Eve is set to carry the pod that will deliver tourists into a sub-orbit of the Earth, thus technically making them astronauts.
