{"id":3175,"date":"2008-01-23T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2008-01-23T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T12:08:10","slug":"spaceshiptwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3175","title":{"rendered":"SpaceShipTwo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/assets\/getAsset.aspx?ItemID=21212\"><br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/01\/23\/221031\/pictures-virgin-galactic-unveils-dyna-soar-style-spaceshiptwo-design-and-twin-fuselage-white-knight.html\">Robb Coppinger<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Virgin Galactic has unveiled a SpaceShipTwo (SS2) design, created by Scaled Composites, that harks back to the NASA\/USAF Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar glider of the 1960s, while Scaled&#8217;s carrier aircraft, White Knight II (WK2) has been given a twin-fuselage configuration.<br \/>\nTo be launched on a Lockheed Martin Titan III rocket, Dyna-Soar was for hypersonic flight research but the programme was cancelled before the first vehicle was completed. Some of its subsystems were used in later X-15 flight research and Dyna-Soar became a testbed for advanced technologies that contributed to projects, including the Space Shuttle.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/assets\/getAsset.aspx?ItemID=21212\"><br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/01\/23\/221031\/pictures-virgin-galactic-unveils-dyna-soar-style-spaceshiptwo-design-and-twin-fuselage-white-knight.html\">Robb Coppinger<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Virgin Galactic has unveiled a SpaceShipTwo (SS2) design, created by Scaled Composites, that harks back to the NASA\/USAF Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar glider of the 1960s, while Scaled&#8217;s carrier aircraft, White Knight II (WK2) has been given a twin-fuselage configuration.<br \/>\nTo be launched on a Lockheed Martin Titan III rocket, Dyna-Soar was for hypersonic flight research but the programme was cancelled before the first vehicle was completed. Some of its subsystems were used in later X-15 flight research and Dyna-Soar became a testbed for advanced technologies that contributed to projects, including the Space Shuttle.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11,22,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}