We’ve Done Thousands of Rocket Tests on Ground
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_The Daily Mail_ [reports][3] Virgin Galactic Founder RichardBranson shed a bit of light on the most mysterious aspects of his space tourism project — the status of SpaceShipTwo’s engine:
> Sir Richard added: ‘The next big step will be the rocket tests actually on the spacecraft itself. We’ve obviously have done thousands of rocket tests on the ground, the next big test is in the air. We’ll be doing gentle rocket tests in the air, ultimately culminating into taking the spaceship into space.”
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