Lovable hirsute billionaire rogue Sir Ricahrd Branson's Virgin Galactic company today unveiled the craft they intend to use to take paying tourist to the edge of space -- the creatively monikered SpaceShipTwo. This fancy flight-of-fancy flight design is only missing the Moonraker style space station/lovepad to suit Branson's lifestyle -- he's already got his spaceplane tricked out with heart shaped windows a-la 1970's Chevy make-out vans. If the spacecrafts a' rockin' don't ya come a' knockin' etc.
SpaceShipTwo would be launched in air by the custom designed aircraft WhiteKnightTwo (WhiteKnightOne is below):
The in-air de-coupling of the first flight is unlikely before 2009. Here's a clip from Moonraker to tide you over:
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