Category: space flight

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo completes a second ‘glide test’

[ad_1] Virgin Galactic’s repeatedly-delayed plans for commercial spaceflight are drawing closer, after the company completed another glide test at its Spaceport America HQ in New Mexico. The VSS Unity once again released from its mothership at about 50,000 feet, but went a bit faster this time and reached speeds of Mach 0.85. CEO George Whitesides […]