World's first commercial spaceship

Virgin Atlantic on Monday unveiled the first commercial passenger spaceship, a sleek black-and-white vessel that represents an expensive gamble on creating a commercial space tourism industry.

The company hopes the winged, minivan-sized SpaceShipTwo will rocket tourists into zero gravity beginning in two or three years.

Image: Anartist's conception of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during asub-orbital flight into space is pictured in this undated publicityphotograph from Virgin Galactic.

Text: Reuters

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