WK2/SS2 takeoff
Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo aircraft, with the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane attached, takes off Dec. 12 from Spaceport America in New Mexico.

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo aborted an attempted suborbital spaceflight Dec. 12 from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...