Branson’s Virgin Galactic to fly its first customers to space today

Virgin Galactic is preparing for its first commercial flight to the edge of space on Thursday, with three Italian researchers set to ride a rocket plane on a government-sponsored suborbital research mission over New Mexico alongside three Virgin employees. The milestone mission comes after more than a decade of test flights of Virgin Galactic’s air-launched rocket-powered vehicles and will be the company’s sixth flight to travel higher than 50 miles (80 kilometers), the boundary of space… (arstechnica.com) 更多...