Space Ship WhiteKnightTwo Unvieled

January 24, 2008

(Long Island, N.Y.) After the initial success of SpaceShipOne, the first space craft made to carry tourists to a tour in outer space for a fee, Burt Rutan unveiled in New York yesterday the detailed models of a new Spaceship aimed at bringing more tourists to Outerspace for a better, safer and less expensive experience of their lives called “WhiteKnightTwo”.

This new Space Ship WhiteKnight can carry more load as it is bigger and with a few more innovations introduced in it. The concept is simple, The WhiteKnight which has two fuselage and four engines will carry the new SpaceShipTwo which is a bigger version of the SpaceShipOne and release it once it gets high in altitude. The idea is to lessen the burden of the SpaceShipTwo and therefore providing longer run in outer space. The spacecraft pilot will then fire the shuttle’s rocket engine to boost it upward.

Building of these Space Ships are underway with the WhiteKnight projected to be around 70% finished while the SpaceShipTwo is about 60% done. Flight tests will commence later this year and Pilot simulation has already begun. Passenger flights will start late next year although company president Will Whitehorn won’t confirm the exact timeframe for passenger flights to start. “We don’t want to make promises that we can’t meet,” Mr. Whitehorn said. “We’re in a race with nobody, apart from a race with safety.”

In response to the critics who called for the safety of the Space crafts, Burt Rutan said, “This has to be such that the fear of the risk doesn’t hold down the growth of the industry,” Although he added that he compares the safety of the new Space craft as those of airliners in the 1920’s by saying. “Don’t believe anyone who tells you that the safety level of new spaceships will be as safe as the modern airliner,”

The main goal of the company is to prove that a regular human being doesn’t have to be fit to go to outer space. With the success of the first SpaceShipOne, Whiteborn said that, “We’ve proved that ordinary people can go to space,” he said, “and almost all of us have the right stuff.”

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