Virgin Galactic Unveils Suborbital Spaceliner Design

摘要

Future thrill-seekers will ride a sleek spacecraft berthed under a massive, twin-boom mother-ship to the fringe of space in a design unveiled Jan. 23 by Virgin Galactic. The SpaceShipTwo spacecraft and its WhiteKnightTwo carrier will begin initial tests this summer to shakedown the novel space-flight system designed by aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan and his firm Scaled Composites.