Message From Virgin Galactic: Have A Nice Day!
Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 09:59PM Pictures from the awesome Virgin Galactic flickr page
(click pic for hi-res) 'Have A Nice Day' where SpaceShipTwo attaches to WhiteKnightTwo
As Virgin Galactic continues to have success with the free flights of SpaceShipTwo, I thought it would be fun to take a nice close look at the area on the mothership (WhiteKnightTwo) where the space craft attaches... mostly because it says Have A Nice Day!
I find these kinds of details to be a very important connection to the reality of the human element - largely because no matter how complicated or challenging the tasks we seek to achieve, we're really all just human beings. It was really ccool to see that VG had this fab pic posted on their flickr page, and I figured you might enjoy seeing it! Be sure to click it to make it big so you can check out the details.
(click pic for hi-res) Virgin Galactic SS2 and WK2 over Spaceport America - Oct 2010
And this view of SpaceShipTwo attached to WhiteKnightTwo from back in October 2010, when the runway at Spaceport America in New Mexico was officially dedicated, gives an awesome view of these two very unique flying machines. According to the SS2 test summary page at Scaled Composites, 4 free flights have been made so far, with the most recent being on January 13, 2011. Here is the 'results' entry from that page for the flight: "All objectives achieved. Stall at aft CG. Evaluated flutter modifications to 250 KEAS. Envelope expanded to 3.8 g's. As part of the test objectives, the SS2 pilots vented water ballast just before coming in to land, which produced a visible contrail."
Godspeed Virgin Galactic.
Reader Comments (2)
Very nice departure message to the upward bound low earth orbit tourists. Have a nice day, yep!
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