NEW virgin revelations

BBC NEWS| Branson unveils Virgin spaceship:

"Sir Richard Branson has unveiled a mock-up of the rocket-powered vehicle that will carry clients into space through his Virgin Galactic business.

The Virgin 'spaceships' are designed to carry six passengers and two pilots to an altitude of about 140km on a sub-orbital space flight.

The Virgin craft are based on the design of SpaceShipOne, built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan, which became the first privately built vehicle to reach space in 2004."


update: [and yes I feel so very boing boing-ee for doing the whole "red update" thing but...] I just saw they had released a picture of the interior... and it's bad ass...
via... boing boing... ;p