The first entry of SpaceX founder Elon Musk in the competition for space tourism blasted off Wednesday night from NASA's Kennedy Space Center pad in Florida.
The SpaceShipTwo is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type that was specifically designed for space tourism purposes. It was operated by Pilots Kelly Latimer and Michael Masucci. Pilots C.J. Sturckow and Dave Mackay flew VSS Unity, a suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane.
