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The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six months, giving a few Virgin Galactic customers a taste of spaceflight after waiting more than a decade.
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Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2024
July 12, 2024 at 6:55 p.m. EDT Listen 7 min
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Joe Engle, the last surviving member of the test pilots who skimmed the edge of space on the X-15 rocket plane in the 1960s and who later orbited the Earth on space-shuttle missions, died July 10 at his home in Houston.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company that kicked off the SPAC boom, flew its rocket plane to the limit of the atmosphere and back this morning (May 25) for the first time in nearly two years.
—Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 25 May 2023
The flight, called Galactic 06 by Virgin Galactic, carried four customers for the first time, along with its two pilots, on a suborbital hop over New Mexico aboard the VSS Unity rocket plane.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
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Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2024
July 12, 2024 at 6:55 p.m. EDT Listen 7 min
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Joe Engle, the last surviving member of the test pilots who skimmed the edge of space on the X-15 rocket plane in the 1960s and who later orbited the Earth on space-shuttle missions, died July 10 at his home in Houston.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company that kicked off the SPAC boom, flew its rocket plane to the limit of the atmosphere and back this morning (May 25) for the first time in nearly two years.
—Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 25 May 2023
The flight, called Galactic 06 by Virgin Galactic, carried four customers for the first time, along with its two pilots, on a suborbital hop over New Mexico aboard the VSS Unity rocket plane.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
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“Rocket plane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rocket%20plane. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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