The Video of the Week for this week shows the first flight of White Night Two while carrying the Virgin Galactic "Enterprise" spacecraft. The flight took place just three days ago and is the latest step toward operating commercial passenger space flights in 2011.
Gadling was there when they unveiled SpaceShipTwo under very stormy skies. But they couldn't have had a more beautiful day to accomplish this test flight. I can't imagine what it's like to sit in the far right side of the giant aircraft. Landing just a few feet from the right side of the runway must take some getting used to. According to a comment on the video, the left side may be used to take observers of the launch in the future. This could be nearly as exciting as going on a launch itself.
As for the experience of travelling weightless over California for a few minutes, would you join the over 330 people who have put down deposits on the $200,000 flights? Virgin Galactic claims another 80,000 people are on the waiting list.
So, if money were no object, would you take a ride?
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