Published on Sep 6, 2013
A camera was strapped to the rear of the Virgin Galactic vehicle to capture footage of the rocket engines and feather system at work. The vehicles 2nd powered flight occurred on September 5th, 2013.
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Pilots Mark Stucky and Clint Nichols were at the controls during Thursday’s test, which started at about 8 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET).
The flight followed the basic scenario for Virgin Galactic’s future passenger trips to space: A twin-fuselage carrier airplane, known as WhiteKnightTwo, made a conventional takeoff from California’s Mojave Air and Space Port. SpaceShipTwo was tucked beneath WhiteKnightTwo’s 141-foot-wide (43-meter-wide) wings, and dropped into the air from an altitude of 46,000 feet.
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