Alien (film) disguise imaginative poverty". In a 1980 episode of "Sneak Previews" discussing science fiction films of the 1950s and 1970s, critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were critical of "Alien". Ebert called it "basically just an intergalactic haunted house thriller set inside a spaceship" and one of several science fiction pictures that were "real disappointments" compared to "Star Wars", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and "", though he did compliment the early scene of the "Nostromo" crew exploring the alien planet as showing "real imagination". However, the film later made it onto Ebert's "Great Movies" list, where he gave it
The Spaceship Company March 2010, following the construction of the initial prototypes of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo by Scaled Composites, The Spaceship Company stated in 2010 that it was moving the aircraft and spacecraft into commercial production. By July 2014, TSC was halfway complete with the build of the second SpaceShipTwo—VSS "Unity"—and is 65 percent complete as of early November 2014. Virgin Galactic rolled out VSS "Unity" on 19 February 2016. A release by TSC on the company Twitter account in May 2018 showed two more spacecraft, after VSS "Unity", under construction. As of mid-2014, a second WhiteKnightTwo was also under construction. TSC is