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Awesome Telescope Footage of SpaceShipTwo Breaking the Sound Barrier

The video below shows Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo breaking the sound barrier.
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A picture is truly worth a thousand words, and in this case, that truism applies to telescope footage. The video below shows Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo breaking the sound barrier.

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Taken by MarsScientific.com and Clay Center Observatory.

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