October 5, 2006 10:02 AM PDT
Virgin Galactic is moving full speed ahead to become the first company to provide commercial suborbital space flights for private citizens. The company hopes to launch its first public flight before 2009, but it is taking bookings now at $200,000 per seat.
SpaceShipTwo will be launched from its mother ship, WhiteKnightTwo. The SpaceShip Company, which is a joint operation of Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, selected Scaled Composites to design and build SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo.
Photo by Virgin Galactic
