Virgin Galactic’s Virgin Flight.

Space junkies and wannabe astronauts rejoice.

This is the exclusive video of Virgin Galactic’s recent test flight in the Mojave.

Also the first official cockpit video and other footage from the recent test of Virgin Mothership Eve at the Scaled Composites skunkworks operation in sunny SoCal.

Scaled Composites and Virgin tend to keep the test results hush-hush but say “several recent published articles have been sufficiently inaccurate and negative” to make them “set the record straight.”

They could be referring to reports by FlightGlobal that VMS Eve, the prototype of the White Knight 2 that took to the air, suffered a tail strike during an April 20 flight and experienced rudder problems. Scaled Composites, in a statement called the test “very successful” and said, “we only needed to adjust the rudder forces.”

White Knight 2’s will make its public debut next month at a fly-over during the groundbreaking for Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport America terminal. Head honcho Richard Branson will climb aboard for the spacecraft’s coming out party at the big AirVenture Oshkosh air show in July.

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