More on the SS2 event

For this week’s issue of The Space Review, I wrote a more detailed report on Thursday’s SpaceShipTwo event in New York. In addition to the details about the SS2 cabin itself, there’s some discussion about how Virgin Galactic is putting SS2 in a larger context, seeing it as a step towards low-cost orbital spaceflight, and for much more than space tourism. (And who knew Richard Branson would be more popular that Alyssa Milano?) In the same issue, Taylor Dinerman talks about the importance of suborbital vehicles like SS2 and SpaceDev’s Dream Chaser as a first step to low-cost orbital RLVs.