
Credit: Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic completed the first glide flight of the updated SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity from Spaceport America in New Mexico on April 26, paving the way for a return to rocket-powered flights and the start of commercial suborbital flights by midyear. The glide flight, which lasted 9 min...
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