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Virgin Galactic is actually taking people into outer space. What our instructor wanted us to do was look at the possibilities of communicating with other life forms and such. I thought that was a little bit much, but I liked the idea of considering what is out there and decided children have the best imaginations with that. So I combined the instructor's wishes and childhood dreams to create the start of what might be a pretty cool campaign.
Virgin Galactic is actually taking people into outer space. What our instructor wanted us to do was look at the possibilities of communicating with other life forms and such. I thought that was a little bit much, but I liked the idea of considering what is out there and decided children have the best imaginations with that. So I combined the instructor's wishes and childhood dreams to create the start of what might be a pretty cool campaign.
During the fourth powered flight of VSS Unity, Frederick W. "C. J." Sturckow and Mark "Forger" Stucky exceeded 50 miles in altitude, earning them Commercial Astronaut Wings.
Early morning sun reflects off SpaceShipTwo's reflective tail coating on the way to release for her 28th glide flight on January 17th, 2014. Range 1.4 km (0.9 mi).
A model of SpaceShipTwo (?). I am looking into converting my American Advantage MasterCard to Virgin Galactic, so I can start collecting airline miles for the space plane.
Virgin Galactic Space Trainees pose on the steps into the cockpit of the NASTAR Center's Phoenix Centrifuge. Space Trainees fly several flight in the most high performance human centrifuge to gain experience with the high G forces that accompany Space Launch and Reentry.
VMS Eve
Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to the paying public. Further in the future Virgin Galactic plans to offer orbital spaceflights as well.
The Scaled Composites Model 348 WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) is a jet-powered carrier aircraft which will be used to launch the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. It is being developed by Scaled Composites as the first stage of Tier 1b, a two-stage to suborbital-space manned launch system. WK2 is based on the successful mothership to SpaceShipOne, White Knight, which itself is based on Proteus.
Virgin Galactic has ordered two WK2s. Together WK2 and SS2 form the basis for Virgin Galactic's fleet of suborbital spaceplanes.
The first WK2 is named VMS Eve after Richard Branson's mother; it was officially unveiled on July 28, 2008, and flew for the first time on December 21, 2008. The second is expected to be named VMS Spirit of Steve Fossett after Branson's close friend Steve Fossett.
SpaceShipOne is still under wraps at the National Air and Space Museum, but it is suspended from the ceiling now, and from the right angle you can see the detailing through the cloth. It will be unveiled on October 5th.
A Virgin Galactic space trainee poses in front of the NASTAR Center's Phoenix Centrifuge with Director of Space Training and Research, Brienna Henwood, and Flight Instructor and Pilot, Glenn King.
Plane Crazy
Rare opportunity to see Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two and WhiteKnight Two at the Mojave Air and Spaceport for Plane Crazy.
To my friend Arnie Lee.
He turns only 60 today.
I'm only ten years behind you.
Thank you for being an encouragement to me.
Edit: Looks like flickr cut me short. No problems. I have it all on facebook, and I'm uploading it to my domain too in a few minutes....okay, here ya go
Okay for Windws PC (8 meg wmv file) go here: www.crossroadone.com/arnie/arnie60.wmv
And mac users (15 meg mov file) : www.crossroadone.com/arnie/arnie60.mov
The Lynx Spaceflight vehicle in a high-altitude flight. The customer will feel almost no gravity on the apogee his spaceflight. At re-entry the space tourist will experience G-forces up to 4G.
Fly the Lynx in 2011, you will be one of the first people in space. For the smaller budget MiGFlug.com offers jetflights in real jet fighters, up to an altitude of 25000m.
Eve, the first of two planned aircraft of the "White Knight Two" line, is the aircraft that is expected to lift Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo spacecraft up to high altitude for launch.
Pictured (left to right): Kevin Mickey, Congressman Kevin McCarthy, Stu Witt, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.