Richard
Branson has big
plans for
Virgin Galactic beyond space planes
MOJAVE, California — On Friday, Sir
Richard Branson unveiled
Virgin Galactic's newest
space plane named Unity with much fanfare:*Branson stood up in the sunroof of a Land Rover as the car rolled the ship into the hangar here at the Mojave Air and
space Port.*
Virgin
Galactic hopes that this suborbital SpaceShipTwo will be the first in a fleet of commercially operated
space planes that will bring paying customers to the edge of
space and back again.
But
Branson has even bigger
plans for
Virgin Galactic in the future.
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