Space Tourism: Virgin Gallactic
Project: ET2 Architecture?
Project: ET2 Architecture?
Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, which plans to offer sub-orbital spaceflights and later orbital spaceflights to the paying public.
Virgin Galactic's mission is to allow non-professional astronauts to fly to an altitude of slightly over 100 km, allowing each passenger to experience weightlessness for up to 6 minutes. Each seat will be sold for US$200,000.
Virgin Galactic is aiming to be the first space tourism company specializing in the provision of sub-orbital flights to the public. This is a new area. While orbital flights can be made by budding space tourists through the Russian Space Agency, there are presently no operational craft capable of sub-orbital flight aside from SpaceShipOne. However, EADS are currently working on a competing sub-orbital craft. Given that SpaceShipOne was designed for a very specific task, Virgin Galactic have commisioned Burt Rutan to design a newer, bigger and better version of his suborbital craft, called SpaceShipTwo. It is this eight seater craft, seating 2 pilots and 6 passengers, which will be used by Virgin Galactic passengers.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/flash.html
Space Ship One
Virgin Galactic's mission is to allow non-professional astronauts to fly to an altitude of slightly over 100 km, allowing each passenger to experience weightlessness for up to 6 minutes. Each seat will be sold for US$200,000.
Virgin Galactic is aiming to be the first space tourism company specializing in the provision of sub-orbital flights to the public. This is a new area. While orbital flights can be made by budding space tourists through the Russian Space Agency, there are presently no operational craft capable of sub-orbital flight aside from SpaceShipOne. However, EADS are currently working on a competing sub-orbital craft. Given that SpaceShipOne was designed for a very specific task, Virgin Galactic have commisioned Burt Rutan to design a newer, bigger and better version of his suborbital craft, called SpaceShipTwo. It is this eight seater craft, seating 2 pilots and 6 passengers, which will be used by Virgin Galactic passengers.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/flash.html
Space Ship One
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