Travel Daily | Virgin Galactic latest

A TEST flight by the Virgin Galactic suborbital spacecraft overnight saw a demonstration of its unique ‘feather’ configuration, which sees it rotate the tail section upwards by 65° in order to slow its re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere.

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