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[i]Our team is prepping for a SpaceShipTwo flight test today.[/i] [i]Today's flight is planned to be a partial duration rocket burn that will test a rearward center of gravity closer to the commercial configuration. We have take-off. VMS Eve and VSS Unity have taken to the skies and have begun their climb.[/i] [i]Today is 13th flight for VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo, 249th for VMS Eve.[/i]
[i]VSS Unity is flying on her own after a clean separation from VMS Eve. Our hybrid rocket motor is ignited for today's planned partial burn and VSS Unity is now on an upward climb. Pilots have shut down the rocket motor and are on an upward coast to apogee. The pilots will shortly raise the tail-booms of SpaceShipTwo for "feathered" re-entry. Pilots have de-feathered VSS Unity and are gliding back to Mojave Airport. SpaceShipTwo has touched down! Congratulations to Dave Mackay and Mark "Forger" Stucky. Today's flight test is now complete as our pilots CJ Sturckow, Nicola Pecile, and flight test engineer Colin Bennet have landed WhiteKnightTwo back.[/i]
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