WK2 rollout kicks off Virgin Galactic’s space race

MOJAVE, Calif. – Virgin Galactic is optimistic of starting suborbital flights by late 2010 or early 2011 pending successful flight-tests of the Whiteknight2 (WK2) mothership, which was debuted at Scaled Composite’s facility here earlier this week. Virgin Galactic officially declines to offer firm...

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