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vss.

abbreviation for

  1. versions.


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These space planes, which are still in development, are being designed to fly eight times a month, versus the once-a-month cadence for the company’s VSS Unity craft.

But continuing development of the Delta-class ships and funding the existing VSS Unity flights at the same time has proved expensive.

But operating the company’s current space plane, VSS Unity, is expensive, and it takes time to turn the craft around and ready it for its next flight, minimizing the number of times it can launch regularly.

Everyone aboard VSS Unity — including the hominin remains — landed safely an hour after take-off.

On Thursday, that hype finally became reality when three Italian researchers boarded the VSS Unity space plane as Virgin Galactic’s first paying passengers and flew about four minutes in suborbital space.

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