PICTURES: SpaceShipTwo unveil ceremony

by Rob Coppinger | Dec 8, 2009 | Seradata News | 1 comment

In this blog post will be a series of images from the unveiling ceremony and party for SpaceShipTwo on 7 December 2009 at Mojave air and spaceport

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credit Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: WK2/SS2 launch system and above (L-R) Will Whitehorn, Richard Branson, Stephen Attenborough

credit: Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: Scaled Composites project team for Tier 1b

credit: Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: inside the rent, like the matching jackets

credit: Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: near and faraway…

credit Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: SpaceShipTwo and mothership bathed in blue light

credit Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: Governors Richardson and Schwarzenegger smash bottles over SpaceShipTwo to name it VMS Enterprise

credit Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: photos for everyone!

credit Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: More arty blue shots

credit: Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: in all its glory

credit: Flight/Alan Radecki / caption: SS2 up close and personal

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