You couldn’t find a more appropriate name for the world’s first commercial spaceship, which Virgin Galactic officially unveiled to the world and the media Monday night at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port. The SpaceShipTwo reusable suborbital plane is now the Virgin Space Ship Enterprise, and it represents a business undertaking worthy of a James T. Kirk-led mission: private spaceflight. “I think they were on track using that name,” Spaceflight Now reporter and former CNN contributor David Waters told TechNewsWorld.
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VSS Enterprise to Take Adventurous and Affluent on Space Jaunts
Posted by: Renay San Miguel December 8, 2009 08:19 AMYou couldn’t find a more appropriate name for the world’s first commercial spaceship, which Virgin Galactic officially unveiled to the world and the media Monday night at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port. The SpaceShipTwo reusable suborbital plane is now the Virgin Space Ship Enterprise, and it represents a business undertaking worthy of a James T. Kirk-led mission: private spaceflight. “I think they were on track using that name,” Spaceflight Now reporter and former CNN contributor David Waters told TechNewsWorld.