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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Virgin Galactic / Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo Completes Glide Flight

It looks as though they also did a ground test firing of the rocket motor on the same day.  This brings us a couple of steps closer to the birth of a new industry.  Will they make a powered flight by the end of the year?  Passengers next year?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=37626

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