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What would happen if any ordinary person would be able to go visit space? This would mean more discoveries, and not only astronauts that are going into space. A new spaceship from spaceflight company Virgin Galactic, (headquarters in Long Beach, California) have recently and stunningly unveiled their new spaceship called after the one and only, Stephen Hawking. (Click here to learn more about Stephen Hawking) This spaceship is called VSS Unity, and was designed to carry two pilots and six passengers. Stephen Hawking claims that he wants to fly on this spaceship in a recorded message, and says "We are entering a new space age." VSS Unity was made to take customers to flights into space in the next few years. The day that the flights were going to start has been delayed multiple times due to the testing flight on October 31st, 2014 that resulted into a space crash killing one of the two pilots on board. In the article released by MOTHERBOARD, it states that the Virgin Galactic spaceship wouldn't blast off straight into space, but that the team that designed the ship are going to make sure all the parts go and work together perfectly. I am guessing that the team is being extra careful because they don't want the same accident to occur again. Along with this, there will be constant test-flights involved before it used. VSS Unity will be able to go 45,000 feet up during the test drives, but will most likely end up going up to 50 mies. There are safeguards that will enforce safety rules to prevent another fatal accident, and it will NOT be able to be used once it is considered 100% safe. It seems like Virgin Galactic is strongly enforcing the safety on VSS Unity.
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