Posted by Davin Flateau on 11 Sep 2006 at 10:11 am.
Filed under Astronomy.
Leonard David of Space.com reports that the sequel to the X-Prize winning Spaceship 1 is about to enter the test flight stage:
The Mojave, California Spaceport is preparing to handle test flights of the SpaceShipTwo – a passenger carrying suborbital craft, according to Bill Deaver, editor and publisher of the Mojave Desert News.
The newspaper on Thursday cited recent comments from Burt Rutan, head of Scaled Composites – the firm working to build the spaceship and its giant mothership, White Knight 2.
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“I expect we will see at least two space flights a day in the next few years,” Rutan said, noting that the spacecraft and the launch vehicles he is designing “will be able to make two flights per day,” the newspaper story stated.
We didn’t get our flying cars for the start of the 21st century, but it looks like private spaceflight is well on its way!
