Firm completes spacecraft factory in Mojave

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 00:30 in Mathematics & Economics

The facility will be home to Spaceship Co., a joint venture of Scaled Composites and British billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism company, Virgin Galactic. The company expects to begin production at the end of the month.Bringing commercial spaceflight a step closer to reality, a privately funded aerospace firm has built a production plant where it will assemble the world's first fleet of passenger-ready spaceships.

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