VSS Enterprise completes first manned free flight
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Date: 15 October, 2010
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Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship Two, the VSS Enterprise, has achieved its first successful manned free flight in preparation for developing the world’s first commercial space line and tourism business. Released from its mothership at an altitude of 45,000 feet and piloted by Pete Siebold, the goals of the flight were to achieve a clean release of the spaceship from its mothership and for the pilots to free fly and glide back to land at Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Following this successful free flight, Virgin Galactic is now well on the way to becoming the first commercial space line, where operations will be run from New Mexico’s Spaceport America. A runway inauguration ceremony will be held on Friday October 22, 2010.
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