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Whitehorn: SpaceShipTwo Test Flights in August, Passenger Travel By Year’s End

Speaking to The Telegraph, Virgin Galactic President Will Whitehorn issued another denial of Flight International’s claim of rudder problems on WhiteKnightTwo’s maiden flight two weeks ago.
Whitehorn repeated the phrase “beyond ridiculous,” raising yet another mystery of what could possibly lie beyond ridiculousness. Aburdity, Kafkaesque, the Bush Administration? The mind boggles.

It’s not so much what Whitehorn [...]

Voyage2Space Competition Offers Space Travel for Only $20

Voyage2Space Press Release
Adventure tourism, such as trips to Antarctica or Mount Everest, has long been a profitable business. This can involve packages with prices as high as £100k and even higher.
In recent years you may have heard of a newly emerging adventure niche, space tourism. The development of space tourism will follow the normal course [...]

Report: WhiteKnightTwo Experienced Control Issues on Maiden Flight; Whitehorn Issues Non-Denial Denial

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo mothership faces rudder problem
Flight International
Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo may need to have its rudder and yaw stability improved to counter issues such as the greater fishtail effect that would be expected with a twin fuselage aircraft.
Witnesses to the 21 December maiden flight told Flight International that they noticed some yawing during take-off, indicating [...]