
Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has revealed the first ever manned commercial spaceship to the public today since it began construction in 2007. The spacecraft will be capable of carrying up to 6 passenger astronauts and up to 2 pilot astronauts into space on a sub-orbital flight.In the future, WK2 will carry SS2 to above 50,000 feet (16 kilometres) before the spaceship is dropped and fires her rocket motor to launch into space from that altitude. Tickets for a sub-orbital up-and-down flight are expected to run about $200,000 a seat for the initial flights





