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Viewing Alert: Virgin Galactic Flight Featured on Nat Geo Channel

Mojave, CA: Test pilot Brian Binnie in pressure suit. Looking into the windows are pressure suit vendor Jack Bassick, Space Program Manager for Scaled Composites Matt Stinemetze and crew member Terry Agold. (Photo Credit: © Virgin Galactic/ Mark Greenberg)

Here’s some exclusive video of the first glide flight of SpaceShipTwo earlier this week, shared by the National Geographic Channel, which has a new documentary series about Virgin Galactic premiering Monday, October 18, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. (Check your local listings at the Nat Geo Channel website). The series will cover maverick entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and legendary aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan as they strive to be first to make space tourism an everyday reality. Also included in the premiere episode will be the backstory of the venture, including Rutan’s win of the Ansari X Prize with SpaceShipOne and WhiteKnightOne.

National Geographic Channel also shared a few images from Sunday’s flight, below.

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The underside of WhiteKnightTwo during flight. (Photo Credit: © Virgin Galactic/ Mark Greenberg)

Mojave, CA: SpaceShipTwo in the hangar with its nose exposed. (Photo Credit: © Antenna Films/ Tyrone Billingsley)

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy has been with Universe Today since 2004, and has published over 6,000 articles on space exploration, astronomy, science and technology. She is the author of two books: "Eight Years to the Moon: the History of the Apollo Missions," (2019) which shares the stories of 60 engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make landing on the Moon possible; and "Incredible Stories from Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos" (2016) tells the stories of those who work on NASA's robotic missions to explore the Solar System and beyond. Follow Nancy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Nancy_A and and Instagram at and https://www.instagram.com/nancyatkinson_ut/