Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has officially unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo, a space plane designed to take commercial customers into suborbital space.<br />At a packed unveiling event in Mojave, California, Professor Stephen Hawking officially named the new vehicle Virgin Spaceship (VSS) Unity via a recorded message.<br />This news comes 16 months after the Virgin Galactic space program was halted in the wake of the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise crash, which killed one pilot and seriously injured another.<br />“Together, we can make space accessible in a way that has only been dreamt of before now, and by doing so can bring positive change to life on Earth,” said Branson
