What is Virgin Galactic?

Virgin Galactic is one of the world's first space companies founded by Sir Richard Branson as part of the worldwide Virgin group. It plans to build the world's first commercial space transport in the world, Spaceport America (formerly southwestern regional cosmic company) in Uphama, New Mexico, a non -Jejevé, uninhabited city near Las Cruces. The Virgin Galactic flight vehicle will be based on the successful SpaceShipone design, which in 2004 won commercial flights Ansari X P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Trisk, for $ 190,000 for years.

flights that Virgin Galactic will initially offer will be true Spaceflights, in the sense that they will be about 108 km (67 miles) just above the Karman line at an altitude of about 108 km (67 miles) just above the Karman line that separates the country from the universe. However, these are only suborbital flights - that is, they scratch the edge of space without getting into a stable orbitthe tracks and stayed there. For the first flights of Virgin Galactic, the vessel will travel to Mach 3, it is not enough to reach orbit, and spend about 6 minutes in its own space where passengers will be weightless. While in space, they will be allowed to avert their seat belts and float around the cabin, which will be equipped with numerous windows for surface observation.

In honor of Star Trek , the first two Virgin SpaceShips will be named Enterprise and voyager . The Virgin Galactic contract has the first private spacecraft with manufacturers, spacecraft, arranging a total of 5 spacecraft construction.

SpaceShipone was built by Burtspass Rutan's, reduced composites, funded by Microsoft Billionaire Paul Allen. Both created Mojave Aerospace Ventures, which would deal with commercial spinoffs from the project. This is a company cooperating with Virgin Galactic to bring commercial space flights to the public for the first time. For $ 21 million USD Virgin Galactic rented workVA intellectual property from Mojave aerospace.

People have already started to register for places on the first space years. Celebrity registrations include William Shatner and Sigourney Weaver, who both played in the sci-fi epic that took place in space. Stephen Hawking, sometimes called the world's largest physicist by Albert Einstein, is also signed to get to the flight of a virgin galactic. Its fee is dropped.