Space Ship II's First "Feather Flight"

Virgin Galactic's Space Ship II has just completed the first test flight of executing the "Feather Flight" principle.

Feather Flight is where the vehicle basically folds in half, dramatically increasing drag on the vehicle, allowing it to fall, like a feather, back into the thin atmosphere from the extreme altitudes that the Space Ship Two operates at from its mission apex.

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