Richard Branson's Inner Starchild Revealed

Virgin Galactic has unveiled SpaceShipTwo-VSS Enterprise, featuring an interior with cushioned seats and "lots" of windows. Six passengers will go from three to zero gs in a two-and-a-half-hour flight. Flightglobal.com has some nifty interior views of the ship, which will apparently be crewed entirely by crash-test dummies:

After a lifetime of smashing Corollas into walls, this dummy thinks outer space is "A-OK"

A crew member gazes out a porthole at the sentient ocean that has futilely been trying to make contact with the bewildered and distraught cosmonauts:

A wide shot of the Austin Powers-esque interior:

Gizmodo.com has even more views, inside and out.

Comments

[David]

Those dummies remind me of the drones from The Black Hole. Slightly creepy.

[Timothy]

Will there now be the 1,000 miles high club?

[Terry]

Disgusting question, but along the lines of one has got to walk before they can run, is there any record of anyone masterbating in space or is the next one going to be the first?

[Jon H]

Looks like Abe Sapien.

[ed]

I think that's why NASA invented Velcro, Terry.

[Pro Libertate]

Tim, I have an additional reason why you are wrong about the feasibility of human space colonization: Space porn, the space sex trade, and rishathra.

[JD Jackson]

I thought there were going to be pictures of Branson dressed as the Statue of Liberty.

[wingnutx]

Ah, we have a Larry Niven fan.

[saharvey]

"Disgusting question, but along the lines of one has got to walk before they can run, is there any record of anyone masterbating in space or is the next one going to be the first?"

There has to have been, guys have spent 6+ months on the space station and if they didn't they would have to change wash those wierd wall sleeping bags all the time.

[Mike Laursen]

The vulcans invented velcro.

[Ratboy]

With all the male and female astronauts who have gone into orbit I can't help but wonder if any couple has done it yet. Nothing disgusting about it, it's what people do, and just think of the possibilities in zero gravity, it could be another Virgin breakthrough!

[Stevo Darkly]

"Tim, I have an additional reason why you are wrong about the feasibility of human space colonization: Space porn, the space sex trade, and rishathra."

"Ah, we have a Larry Niven fan."

Just remember to take off your "I have sex outside my species" button before leaving the convention hotel to grab a bite of lunch.

[Larry A]

If you leave the convention hall to eat among the 'danes, you aren't a truefan.