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Video: Virgin Galactic And SpaceShipTwo Supersonic On First Powered Flight Test!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 08:03AM 
(click pic for hi-res) SpaceShipTwo first powered flight on 4.29.13 (photo: Virgin Galactic)
Great success was achieved yesterday (April 29, 2013) in Mojave California as Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic flew SpaceShipTwo Enterprise on their first powered flight ever. After release from the mothership at 47,000 feet, the SS2 crew fired the rocket motor for 16 seconds propelling them up to 55,000 feet and Mach 1.2 - supersonic!
The test flight appears to have been completely successful. Congratulations to all involved in achieving this major milestone!
read the full Virgin Galactic report here
(click pic for hi-res) Enterprise during first rocket burn test flight (photo: Virgin Galactic)
Reader Comments (2)
This took them 8.5 years and somebody else wants to send a man to Mars in 10?
That is sweet! Took long enough...