Did we ever find out where the first Virgin Galactic flights were going to?

Did we ever find out where the first Virgin Galactic flights were going to? Or was it just a circuit around SpaceportAmerica

Weren't they simply going to "space" and back to where they started? A scenic flight of sorts?

Back to earth...with a thud.

Unless Matthew McConaughey managed to communicate in morse code, from the 5th dimension, to the engineers at Virgin giving them the formula  for escaping Earth's gravitational pull efficiently...Pffft....

TRB: did you just spoil the ending of Interstellar for me? :P

No, I'm saving you $20.

Go watch the latest Hobbit installment instead ;)

instalment!

Brilliant.

The one that crashed was a drop-test.

The plan for the final product (if it still gets built) is simply to go straight up and come down again. So the destination is just a tiny bit of space which happens to be about 160km above New Mexico. The SpaceshipTwo is nowhere near capable of even achieving orbit, which involves a helluva push sideways in conjunction with a small push upwards.

The name "Galactic" is, of course, ridiculous overreach. It's as if Virgin Atlantic involved wading up to your ankles in the beach at Portsmouth.

Save yourself the money and book a Malaysian Airlines flight.

Rumour is they are going to PER, aiming to provide a half decent int'l service to WA lol!!