Virgin Galactics Space Ship Two First Feathered Flight

Courtesy: Virgin Galactic. Early on Wednesday 4th May 2011, in the skies above Mojave Air and Spaceport CA, SpaceShipTwo, the world s first commercial spaceship, demonstrated its unique reentry feather configuration for the first time. This test flight, the third in less than two weeks, marks another major milestone on the path to powered test flights and commercial operations.