The founder of Virgin Galactic announced the imminent start of commercial flights into space.
Richard Branson, founder of the famous aerospace corporation Virgin Galactic, in an interview with CBS This Morning said about the start of commercial suborbital flights into space this summer.
He announced that three final test starts will be made in the coming weeks. “In a few weeks, we have scheduled another test flight from the Mojave Desert, then - in a few weeks - another one”- said R. Branson.
"And after that, if everything is fine, which I have no doubt, we will transfer everything to New Mexico, where we have a new cosmodrome, and there we will make a final test flight."
The sounded plan is quite consistent with the fact that the founder of Virgin Galactic had already declared 2018 of the year in December, after its shuttle had taken off above the 80-kilometer altitude, designated in the USA as the boundary of the earth's atmosphere.
George Whitesides, executive director of Virgin Galactic, also said earlier that a small number of test flights would be carried out by his company at the beginning of 2019, after which a program of commercial launches from the new private spaceport in New Mexico will be opened .
Add that to the channel Richard Branson came with Kevin Plank, the executive director of the well-known company "Under Armor", specializing in the production of clothing and footwear. According to the agreement, it is this brand that will provide not only clothes and shoes for employees and participants of the commercial space flight program, but will even make a new type of more comfortable spacesuit, and will also undertake the development of a set of pre-flight training programs for Virgin customers.
Branson himself said that he would personally participate in one of the first suborbital flights, while Kevin Plank also confirmed his participation without detailing the flight time, but stating that they both began a pre-flight training complex.
Recall that at the moment, the Virgin Galactic aerospace corporation has a queue of more than 600 customers who have made a deposit for “space tickets” at a price of 250 thousand dollars, and until the further sale of tickets is suspended due to the exhaustion of seats for the next few years old.
He announced that three final test starts will be made in the coming weeks. “In a few weeks, we have scheduled another test flight from the Mojave Desert, then - in a few weeks - another one”- said R. Branson.
"And after that, if everything is fine, which I have no doubt, we will transfer everything to New Mexico, where we have a new cosmodrome, and there we will make a final test flight."
The sounded plan is quite consistent with the fact that the founder of Virgin Galactic had already declared 2018 of the year in December, after its shuttle had taken off above the 80-kilometer altitude, designated in the USA as the boundary of the earth's atmosphere.
George Whitesides, executive director of Virgin Galactic, also said earlier that a small number of test flights would be carried out by his company at the beginning of 2019, after which a program of commercial launches from the new private spaceport in New Mexico will be opened .
Add that to the channel Richard Branson came with Kevin Plank, the executive director of the well-known company "Under Armor", specializing in the production of clothing and footwear. According to the agreement, it is this brand that will provide not only clothes and shoes for employees and participants of the commercial space flight program, but will even make a new type of more comfortable spacesuit, and will also undertake the development of a set of pre-flight training programs for Virgin customers.
Branson himself said that he would personally participate in one of the first suborbital flights, while Kevin Plank also confirmed his participation without detailing the flight time, but stating that they both began a pre-flight training complex.
Recall that at the moment, the Virgin Galactic aerospace corporation has a queue of more than 600 customers who have made a deposit for “space tickets” at a price of 250 thousand dollars, and until the further sale of tickets is suspended due to the exhaustion of seats for the next few years old.
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