Virgin Galactic Breaks Speed of Sound in First Rocket-powered Flight of SpaceShipTwo

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Space Ship Two Fires Its Engine
By Keith Cowing on April 29, 2013 12:04 PM. 6 Comments

Virgin Galactic Breaks Speed of Sound in First Rocket-powered Flight of SpaceShipTwo (with video)

"Today, Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi's aabar Investments PJC, completed the first rocket-powered flight of its space vehicle, SpaceShipTwo (SS2). The test, conducted by teams from Scaled Composites (Scaled) and Virgin Galactic, officially marks Virgin Galactic's entrance into the final phase of vehicle testing prior to commercial service from Spaceport America in New Mexico."

More: http://nasawatch.com/archives/2013/04/space-ship-two.html

[fasttense]

1. Taking feudalism and capitalism to space. Wow, what could possibly go wrong. n/t

[liberalmike27]

2. Sooooooooooo...

That's what they've been doing rather than fix the 1.50 x 5 data charges they've added to my pay-as-you-go plan, for sending a picture or two, and yes, checking my balance. They've been busy breaking records, rather than have someone fix the programming that keeps deducting $1.75 per picture or balance check.

It's been close to a month now. Still no refund to my plan, even though I've emailed them twice.