Virgin Closes in on License For SpaceShipTwo Launches

摘要

Virgin Galactic is in the "final phases" of its efforts to receive a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) commercial launch license for SpaceShipTwo, and plans to resume powered test flights of that suborbital vehicle in the near future, the company's chief executive said March 6. "I think we're in the final phases of our commercial launch application with the FAA, and that's going well," George Whitesides said in a luncheon speech at the Goddard Memorial Symposium in Washington. Virgin Galactic had submitted that application to the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation last August, where it has been under review. "We hope to progress that to conclusion soon."