Names of Virgin Galactic shipsMonday 1/30/12 Virgin Galactic has given names to it's ships. The name for the first mothership is VMS (Virgin Mothership) Eve. Eve is Branson's mother name. The second mothership will be named to VMS Spirit of Steve Fossett. Fossett was a good friend of Branson, who died in airplane crash 2007. The first rocket name is VSS (Virgin Space Ship) Enterprise. The second rocket name will be VSS Voyager. Both names are known from Star Trek -series and they both are also names of NASA shuttles. The next rocket names are not know yet. More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMS_Eve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett |