The Virgin Spaceship 2 (SS2) is a scaleplane (an airplane on Earth and spacecraft in space) that will be used for space travel and tourism. It holds a total of 8 people, and is about twice the size of the spaceship1. It had its first test flight in 2007, but had an explosion. On September 5th, 2013 it had another test flight quite successfully.
http://www.space.com/22660-virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-rocket-test.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipTwo
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