Space ship 3

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SpaceShip III (SS3) is an upcoming class of spaceplanes by Virgin Galactic to follow SpaceShipTwo¹. It was first teased on the Virgin Galactic Twitter account on 25 February 2021 announcing the rollout of the first SpaceShip III plane on 30 March 2021¹. The current SpaceShip III is designed to provide just a few minutes of weightlessness and views for space tourists for Virgin Galactic, and is a production version of SpaceShipTwo, with improved maintenance and flight rate performance and does not have point to point transportation capabilities as previously envisioned in 2016². The first Spaceship III, VSS Imagine, was rolled out on 30 March 2021². On that occasion, it was indicated there was ground testing to be done before glide test flights could commence, no earlier than the summer of 2021².

Source: Conversation with Bing, 8/15/2023
(1) SpaceShip III - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShip_III.
(2) Virgin Galactic unveils new SpaceShip III - The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22356889/virgin-galactic-unveils-new-spaceship-iii-three-3.
(3) Meet VSS Imagine: Virgin Galactic unveils its first SpaceShip III .... https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-unveils-spaceship-iii-spacecraft.

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