After two successful flights through the upper limits of the atmosphere, Virgin Galactic says it is ready to move its operations from Mojave, Calif., where it has built and tested SpaceShipTwo, to New Mexico.
British billionaire Richard Branson is taking another step toward offering rides to space for paying passengers by moving Virgin Galactic operations to Spaceport America in Upham, N.M., pictured here in 2014.
The architectural marvel sat largely empty and inactive as Virgin struggled to build a spacecraft that could safely and reliably ferry people to the edge of space. But after two successful flights through the upper limits of the atmosphere, Virgin said it is now ready to move its operations from Mojave, Calif. — where it has built and tested SpaceShipTwo — to New Mexico.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Branson hailed the move as a crucial moment for the company as it hits what he called the “homestretch” of testing before taking the first passengers later this year.Branson plans to be on the first operational flight, but it’s unclear when exactly that will take place as the company moves through the final phases of its testing program.
It pulled off the feat again in February, this time flying with another pair of test pilots and a crew member, Beth Moses. The Federal Aviation Administration awarded all five members of the flights with commercial astronaut wings.
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