Photo: Tourist Spaceship Design Unveiled

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Entrepreneur Richard Branson and aircraft designer Burt Rutan unveiled this model of SpaceShipTwo—a shuttle planned to start ferrying tourists into space within a few years—in New York on January 23, 2008.

The presentation also included a model of WhiteKnightTwo, the four-engine airplane that will carry SpaceShipTwo into its midair launch position.

Photography by Chip East/Reuters (United States)

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