SpaceShipTwo

In 2009 Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo, a craft designed to make suborbital tourist flights beginning in 2012; however, that date was subsequently pushed back.

…spaceflight participants into space is SpaceShipTwo, dubbed VSS Unity, which is launched from a permanent spaceport near Upham, New Mexico. Unity made its first fully crewed flight on July 11, 2021, with pilots David Mackay and Michael Masucci and four passengers, Branson and Virgin Galactic employees Sirisha Bandla, Beth Moses,…

SS1 was succeeded by SpaceShipTwo (SS2), designed to carry two pilots and six passengers. SS2 was unveiled in 2009 and was scheduled to begin suborbital space tourism flights in the 2020s. SS1 hangs in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.