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Turning back the clock to the 1960s, the Overture looks astonishingly similar to Concorde, but that’s where the similarities end.
Supersonic commercial travel is on the horizon once more, according to NASA and Lockheed Martin, who are building a needle-like aeroplane, the X-59 QueSST.
Virgin Galactic isn’t only trying to take tourists to space, because it also wants to transport people across the planet at breakneck speeds.