VMS Eve, Craft named after Richard Branson’s Mother
After last years explosion at Mojave Desert outside Vegas that killed three people during a rocket engine test, Scaled composites has come back with a bang and unrolled their Spacecraft mothership “White Knight 2” out on the Tarmac last month.
The craft has an all carbon composite fuselage with quad Pratt and Whitney PW308 turbofan engines providing 6900 lbs thrust each at full power. The wingspan is nearly 140 feet almost thrice the size of the first prototype that won the Ansari X Prize
The launch of WK2 brings space tourism closer to a distinct reality, with commercial operations of Virgin Galactic beginning sometime in 2009!
