Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo rocket plane today. This is the latest version the company has revealed to the public since their deadly crash during a test flight with the previous version. In a tweet, Virgin Galactic specified that the new vessel , the VSS Unity, was actually named by Stephen Hawking who also expressed enthusiasm for the future of commercial in a message shared via Twitter, “If I am able to go & if Richard will still take me, I would be very proud to fly on this spaceship.” In a blog post yesterday, the company emphasized that the new SpaceShipTwo will not be used in test flights any time soon. If you are expecting SpaceShipTwo to blast off and ...
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