Virgin Galactic getting closer to liftoff for space tourism.
BBC reporter Richard Scott was the first journalist allowed inside the Virgin Galactic spaceship. You can read his report here about the tour of the Virgin Galactic spaceship.
Virgin Galactic is still several years away from taking actual paying customers, but the test flight program is breaking new flight milestones.
*Also of importance, Virgin Galactic announced the world’s first commercial contracts to send researchers to space.
“Virgin Galactic’s signed contract with the Southwest Research Institute is the first such agreement to fly scientists into space (over 100 kilometers or 328,000 feet above the Earth), enabling valuable microgravity, biology, climate and astronomy research.” The contracts are worth 1.6 million dollar.
"Everybody will know somebody who has been into space in the next 20 years”
Matt Stinemetze
Spaceship builder
