Virgin Galactic Unveils ‘WhiteKnightTwo’ Mothership

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  07.28.08 | 3:37 PM ET

imagePhoto via Virgin Galactic.

It’s so hot Xeni Jardin wants to fondle it. Other reports from today’s unveiling of the high-altitude aircraft that will carry SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic’s commercial space ship, to the edge of the atmosphere were almost as breathless. Wired, the Los Angeles Times, Jaunted and others have reports from the scene in California’s Mojave Desert.