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by ricardobeat 1800 days ago
Yeah, that’s a completely different design for high speed travel in the atmosphere.
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It doesn't mean anything, virgin galactic was initially developed with this in mind. Space travel for tourist is just a side effect.

Space X and Blue Origin are design for space exploration

Your original reply was to this, and I'm commenting in this context:

> What are we talking about as far as going into space? This craft resembles a passenger plane more than a rocket.

Whatever plans they may have for international flights, they seem unrelated to the craft we saw today - the proposed design in the article you linked is for a new "conventional" supersonic plane, not going to orbit and back à la Starship with SpaceShipTwo.

Also, I thought Virgin Galactic was founded specifically with space tourism in mind, not transportation?