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micropooz
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posted 02-08-2016 01:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for micropooz   Click Here to Email micropooz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Does anyone know of any covers that were flown on the test flights of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise before its accident in October 2014?

Robert Pearlman
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posted 03-17-2019 12:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Though not from the VSS Enterprise, Michael Sheetz of CNBC shared this photo on Twitter of an Apollo 11 USS New recovery ship cover that flew on VSS Unity on Feb. 22, 2019:
This is a piece of Apollo 11 history (a letter from the recovery ship sent on the day it splashed down) that flew on Virgin Galactic's last spaceflight, CEO George Whitesides tells me.

Ken Havekotte
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posted 03-17-2019 05:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ken Havekotte   Click Here to Email Ken Havekotte     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Very nice, but instead of flying an Apollo 11 secondary recovery ship cover (this one is from the USS New stationed in the opposite ocean side, Atlantic), why not include a prime USS Hornet recovery ship cover from the actual pickup vessel in the Pacific? No big deal or nothing, but is there a particular reason why the USS New was chosen?

Robert Pearlman
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posted 03-17-2019 09:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My guess is that they didn't go out and seek an Apollo 11 cover to fly, but rather it was something a team member already owned.

SkyMan1958
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posted 03-17-2019 04:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SkyMan1958   Click Here to Email SkyMan1958     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Whoever got that cover to fly must have had some sort of an inside connection.

Over the last several years I've tried multiple times to get even a response from Virgin Galactic about flying a $2 bill on their first flight into space.

The bill had previously been flown twice, on the two 2004 flights of SpaceShipOne that counted toward the X Prize. I never received an answer from Virgin Galactic. I emailed their contact point multiple times. I even met one of their sales reps face to face, talked to them, and gave them my contact information, but never got any follow up from Virgin Galactic.

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