Virgin Galactic conducts 1st powered flight of new spaceship
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) " Virgin Galactic has conducted the first powered test flight of its new space tourism rocket.Virgin Galactic tweets that the spaceship named Unity was carried aloft by its mother ship and released over California's Mojave Desert early Thursday.The company says the spacecraft achieved supersonic speed before the pilots shut down the engine and it glided back to Mojave Air & Space Port.This was Virgin Galactic's first powered flight since the 2014 [...]
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