Virgin Galactic unveils its new spaceship VSS Unity, as the push to 'make space accessible' continues
- 8 years ago
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has officially unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo, a space plane designed to take commercial customers into suborbital space.
At a packed unveiling event in Mojave, California, Professor Stephen Hawking officially named the new vehicle Virgin Spaceship (VSS) Unity via a recorded message.
This news comes 16 months after the Virgin Galactic space program was halted in the wake of the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise crash, which killed one pilot and seriously injured another.
“Together, we can make space accessible in a way that has only been dreamt of before now, and by doing so can bring positive change to life on Earth,” said Branson
At a packed unveiling event in Mojave, California, Professor Stephen Hawking officially named the new vehicle Virgin Spaceship (VSS) Unity via a recorded message.
This news comes 16 months after the Virgin Galactic space program was halted in the wake of the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise crash, which killed one pilot and seriously injured another.
“Together, we can make space accessible in a way that has only been dreamt of before now, and by doing so can bring positive change to life on Earth,” said Branson