Eve Carries Enterprise for First Time

I must be delirious from lack of sleep lately, because I missed a really exciting milestone in the development of commercial space flight. Virgin Galactic, Scaled Composites and the EAA are proudly announcing the first captive carry flight of space ship two, the VSS Enterprise, by her mothership, Eve.

It's awesome to see this program progressing amidst hard economic times. It seems like Virgin must be immune to such things. They are reporting $45 Million in deposits from 330 future passenger astronauts.

That is an amazing sum, but the success of the program so far must instill confidence in those deposit holders. The flight on Monday went to an altitude of 45,000 feet and sounded like a major success.

Well done Virgin and keep up the great work! We're looking forward to more exciting test flights soon.