LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – For Virgin Galactic—the passenger-carrying spaceliner company—plans are rapidly taking shape to offer suborbital space flights in the near-term but also to eventually offer point-to-point rocket travel around the globe, as well as to space hotels, and trips to the Moon.
While the business case for public space transportation has yet to be proven, sections of Virgin Galactic’s spaceliner already dot the factory floors at Scaled Composites in Mojave, California—all under the watchful eye of aerospace designer, Burt Rutan.