What you are seeing is Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, or SS2, which completed its first test flight today. Sir Richard Branson is certainly pleased as can be, and the SS2 took off at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. A carrier craft known as WhiteKinightTwo towed it 47,000 feet into the atmosphere and then the rockets kicked in to go faster than the speed of … [Read more...] about Virgin Galactic SS2 makes first successful test flight