Space passengers: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo receives FAA license
August 2, 2016
The US federal aviation watchdog has issued a license for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, allowing the company to restart test flights for the plane designed to take passengers on sub-orbital space trips following the fatal 2014 crash.
The US Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA-AST) granted the operator license to Virgin Galactic almost two years after the failed test of the SpaceShipTwo craft, which broke up in-flight and crashed in the Mojave desert in October 2014. The new SpaceShipTwo spacecraft, branded VSS Unity, was unveiled in February this year and is currently undergoing ground system integration testing.
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