Branson/Rutan Joint Venture Plan SpaceShipTwo Flight Tests

Credit: VIRGIN GALACTIC
Flight testing of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital tourist vehicle and its WhiteKnightTwo carrier is scheduled for this summer. The Spacecraft Co.—a joint venture between Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space-tourism subsidiary and Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites—has started assembling the first of each...

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