Gallery: Branson takes off in Eve

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At the Airventure 2009 air show, Sir Richard Branson, flew Virgin Gallactic's mother ship, WhiteKnightTwo aka VMS Eve, for the first time. The plane is designed to launch a spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, into space - 50,000 miles above the Earth. For more, read Larry Dignan's blog.
Credit: credit Mark Greenburg, Virgin Gallactic
Burt Rutan and Richard Branson with the Scaled team.
Credit: credit Mark Greenburg, Virgin Gallactic
VMS Eve over Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin
Credit: credit Mark Greenburg, Virgin Gallactic
WMS Eve flying over Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Credit: credit Mark Greenburg, Virgin Gallactic
Sir Richard Branson looks on as Mohamed Al-Husseiny of Aabar signs a $280 investment deal with Virgin Gallactic.
Credit: credit Mark Greenburg, Virgin Gallactic
Sir Richard Branson President and founder of Virgin Group and Mohamed Badawy Al Husseiny CEO of Aabar.
Credit: credit Mark Greenburg, Virgin Gallactic
Sir Richard Branson trains aboard VMS Eve with lead project engineer of the mothership Bob Morgan.
Credit: credit Mark Greenburg, Virgin Gallactic
Sir Richard with Pete Siebold and Bob Morgain in VMS Eve.
Credit: credit Mark Greenburg, Virgin Gallactic
A model of Spaceport America, home to Virgin Gallactic's space operations.
Map location of Spaceport America. It's located in New Mexico near the White Sands Missile Range - about 45 miles north of Las Cruces.
Spaceport America
Spaceport America
Diagram of Spaceport America

At the Airventure 2009 air show, Sir Richard Branson, flew Virgin Gallactic's mother ship, WhiteKnightTwo aka VMS Eve, for the first time. The plane is designed to launch a spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, into space - 50,000 miles above the Earth. For more, read Larry Dignan's blog.

Credit: credit Mark Greenburg, Virgin Gallactic

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