Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveiled a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket on Friday. Virgin spaceship VSS Unity is designed to take tourists into space. Its the first spacecraft to be tested since the deadly 2014 crash that destroyed the original rocket and killed one of the pilots. Virgin Galactic YouTube video: eTurbo News reports: The space line founded by Sir Richard Branson unveiled the craft at California’s Mojave Air & Space Port, where it was assembled. SpaceShipTwo is designed to be flown by a crew of two and carry up to six passengers on a high-speed suborbital flight to the fringes of space. At an altitude above 62 miles, passengers will experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the Earth below. The ship is the size of a small corporate jet. Among those contributing to the unveiling was Professor Stephen Hawking, who named the new vehicle Virgin Spaceship Unity and said via a recorded speech that he hopes to fly into space one day. “If I am able to go and if Richard will still take me, I would be very proud to fly on this spaceship,” Hawking said. Actor Harrison Ford was also part of [...]