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The Virgin team aiming to send tourists on suborbital flights has tested its spacecraft with a crew for the first time, it has announced.
The craft remained attached to a specially designed aeroplane throughout a six-hour flight over California's Mojave desert on Thursday, Virgin Galactic said.
On its website, the company congratulated the crew and said "Objectives achieved". It says the two crew members evaluated all the spaceship's systems and functions.
Virgin Galactic says the flight test programme will run until 2011 before it starts commercial operations.
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The craft remained attached to a specially designed aeroplane throughout a six-hour flight over California's Mojave desert on Thursday, Virgin Galactic said.
On its website, the company congratulated the crew and said "Objectives achieved". It says the two crew members evaluated all the spaceship's systems and functions.
Virgin Galactic says the flight test programme will run until 2011 before it starts commercial operations.
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