There's a new plane at the Long Beach airport - it is called "Cosmic Girl," and she's getting lots of attention.

The plane is a Boeing 747 that used to fly passengers, but now has a new job working for space company Virgin Orbit. The plane will eventually be used to launch rockets into space. 

Take Two spoke with journalist Tim Fernolz, who writes about space for Quartz and has a book coming out on the commercial space industry. 

"What they've done to it at Virgin Orbit is retrofit it, tear out all of the seats so that they can use it to launch rockets into space."

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