A hypersonic plane? Houston company seeks to fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in 1 hour

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Venus Aerospace, a Houston company developing a plane that could fly passengers from Los...

Sarah “Sassie” Duggleby, Venus Aerospace co-founder and CEO, and her husband Andrew Duggleby, Venus Aerospace co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at the Houston Spaceport entrance sign, Friday, March 5, 2021, in Houston.Venus Aerospace, a Houston company developing a spaceplane that could fly passengers from Los Angeles to Tokyo in one hour, has raised $20 million, the company announced Tuesday.

Sassie Duggleby and her husband Andrew Duggleby, who co-founded the company, left jobs in California to grow Venus Aerospace in Houston. The company is designing a spaceplane that will travel 12 times faster than the speed of sound and at an altitude of 150,000 feet, which is high enough to see the blackness of space.

 

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