SpaceShipTwo Design and Pics Released

An anonymous reader writes "Designs and photos for Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic's new suborbital spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, and its carrier aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo, have been released." Lots of specs and numbers if you're interested in that sort of thing although nothing hugely detailed.

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Re:Nothing to see here

[Rei]

You're right. Because a cockpit with no TPS is so much more challenging than turbopumps that can drain the volume of swimming pools in minutes to seconds, pumping cryogenic and/or corrosive materials, into a combustion chamber operating hotter than the boiling point of steel, on the scale of a building dozens of stories high, built as light as physically possible despite accelerating this building-sized monster at several Gs with heavy vibration. :P

Re:Nothing to see here

[GodfatherofSoul]

I'm sure you Libertarians are soiling your pants, but this entire project is not much more than the US government was doing 60 years ago. Hey, maybe in another 60 years private industry will bring us a "reusable space truck."