Here’s everything you need to know about the enormous Roc space plane

Deep in the Californian Mojave desert an ambitious project is taking place that aims to send ripples through the corridors of time. A beast is being created, the likes of which the world has never seen. This creature is “Roc”, named after the Middle-Eastern bird of prey, and it will be the largest plane ever constructed in the history of mankind.

Roc is being built by the Mojave Spaceport based aerospace company, Scaled Composites, for Stratolaunch Systems, a space transportation venture founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The purpose of this monstrosity will be to fly unmanned payloads or manned space rockets out into the stratosphere so that it can be launched mid-air instead of taking off from the ground.

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