Virgin Galactic's starship, Calamity 1, a converted Stagecoach double-decker bus fitted with wings, which will also be used by Space Scotland to launch tourists into orbit, took to the skies over Moray on Sunday, with the test flight being observed with amused interest by NASA in Houston.
The prototype starship blasted off from Moray's Cape McClunt astroport just after lunch, on an orbital trajectory, and attained an altitude of almost three hundred feet before the main haggis-fuelled booster rockets overheated and exploded in a sub-nuclear fireball, causing the craft to splash down in the North Sea, triggering a tsunami that swamped the Shetlands, resulting in several pounds-worth of damage.
Just to confirm this is a piece of satire, there are no plans afoot by the SNP to propel space cadets from Cape Connery into the Big Blue, Saltired-Beyond.
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