Virgin Galactic set to start last key test flights for its passenger rocket plan
Six hundred individuals have so far paid deposits to take a ride on Unity, with many of these individuals having put down their money a good number of years ago."Our next flight will be just purely two pilots in the front to do a systems check," he told BBC News.
To whet the appetite of its would-be astronauts, Virgin Galactic released details on Tuesday of the look of Unity's six-person passenger cabin.Individually sized seats will move to manage G-forces in the different phases of flight - on the boost up to space and on the descent back to Earth.
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