{"id":2012,"date":"2010-10-19T05:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T13:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2010-10-14T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T04:31:49","slug":"virgin-galactic-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic takes off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dawn-in-mojave-preparing-for-gf01sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2013\" style=\"margin: 2px;\" title=\"Dawn in mojave preparing for gf01 - Virgin Galaxy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dawn-in-mojave-preparing-for-gf01sm.jpg?resize=300%2C186\" alt=\"Dawn in mojave preparing for gf01 - Virgin Galactic\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dawn-in-mojave-preparing-for-gf01sm.jpg?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dawn-in-mojave-preparing-for-gf01sm.jpg?resize=1024%2C635&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dawn-in-mojave-preparing-for-gf01sm.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Virgin Galactic has undergone its big we-are-ready moment.\u00a0 On October 10, 2010, they successfully released and glided the VSS Enterprise, class <em>SpaceShipTwo<\/em>, from its mothership (at an altitude of 45,000 feet) to the landing strip in Mojave, CA.<\/p>\n<p>The two main goals of this test flight were to have a &#8220;clean release of the spaceship from its mothership&#8221; and to have the pilots free fly and glide the VSS Enterprise back to Space Port in California.<\/p>\n<p>In case your interested, the mothership is named Eve, class <em>WhiteKnightTwo<\/em>.\u00a0 For those of us interested in the private sector (aka, commercial) space race, this is exciting news.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the official edited Youtube video:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"600\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mDUVe3a496Y?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>One other image of its successful flight:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/vss-enterprise_glide-flight-01_5sm.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/vss-enterprise_glide-flight-01_5sm.jpg?resize=600%2C404\" alt=\"vss enterprise glide flight 01 - Virgin Galaxic\" title=\"vss enterprise glide flight 01 - Virgin Galaxic\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/vss-enterprise_glide-flight-01_5sm.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/vss-enterprise_glide-flight-01_5sm.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic has undergone its big we-are-ready moment.\u00a0 On October 10, 2010, they successfully released and glided the VSS Enterprise, class SpaceShipTwo, from its mothership (at an altitude of 45,000 feet) to the landing strip in Mojave, CA. The two main goals of this test flight were to have a &#8220;clean release of the spaceship &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2012\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virgin Galactic takes off!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,40,973],"tags":[1184,424,1183,1185],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photographs","category-video","tag-space-flight","tag-virgin","tag-virgin-galaxy","tag-vss-enterprise"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Virgin Galactic takes off! - SolidWorks Legion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2012\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2012&page=2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Virgin Galactic takes off! - SolidWorks Legion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Virgin Galactic has undergone its big we-are-ready moment.\u00a0 On October 10, 2010, they successfully released and glided the VSS Enterprise, class SpaceShipTwo, from its mothership (at an altitude of 45,000 feet) to the landing strip in Mojave, CA. 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