The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo is a retired air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It was manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company o
SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity in the Virgin Galactic Final Assembly Integration Test Hangar
Full-scale mock-up of SpaceShipTwo in Virgin Galactic livery
SpaceShipTwo in a captive flight configuration underneath White Knight Two, during the runway dedication of Spaceport America in October 2010. VMS Eve is shown carrying VSS Enterprise.
The firing of SpaceShipTwo's rocket engines during its first powered flight in April 2013
SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 3,000 ft/s / 910 m/s using a hybrid rocket motor. The design features a
SpaceShipTwo
…The final flight of Unity was Galactic 07 on 8 June 2024. The SpaceShipTwo project was based in part on technology developed for the first-generation SpaceShipOne, which was part of the Scaled Composites Tier One program, funded by Paul Allen. The Spaceship Company licensed this technology from Mojave Aerospace…
SpaceShipOne after its flight into space, June 2004.
White Knight One launch aircraft
Flight 16P taxi pre launch
Launch of the rockets on SpaceShipOne