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Virgin logs 54th test flight of SpaceShipTwo


SpaceShip Two lands after her 54th test flight.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, the futuristic rocket plane expected to carry hundreds of tourists to suborbital space, completed an unpowered test flight at Mojave Air and Space Port Tuesday.

It was the spaceship's 54th test flight, and it came just three days after Virgin's billionaire founder, Sir Richard Branson, spent Saturday in Mojave celebrating the 10th anniversary of SpaceShipOne's historic flights to suborbital space.

But at that celebration, Branson appeared frustrated -- or chagrined -- that a decade after SS1 captured the $10 million Ansari X Prize, his second-generation spaceship has still not begun commercial operations.