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1:01Now Playing360-degree walk around of the VSS Unity — with a special Star Wars guest!
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1:01Now PlayingVirgin Galactic unveiled its gleaming new spaceship Friday, the first craft specifically designed to carry paying customers to space and return them safety to Earth.
The new blue-silver-and-white VSS Unity will undergo extensive testing on the ground and in unpowered flight before pilots fire up its rocket for flight tests. The company hasn’t yet released a schedule for when it may begin carrying passengers aloft, instead insisting it will launch only when ready.
Unity replaces a similar model destroyed in an Oct. 31, 2014, crash, although that model was built primarily as a test craft and was never intended to carry customers. Unity, however, will pull double duty: It will finish out flight testing and then become the world’s first commercial space shuttle, its creators hope.
“It’s pretty cool to be taking people to space,” Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson said Friday at an unveiling ceremony at the Mojave Air and Spaceport.
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