There are just so many surreal moments from which to choose.

For example, do I go with the actual unveiling itself, which featured Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson standing — with arms outstretched like king-of-the-world Jack Dawson in "Titanic" — through the sunroof of the Range Rover that towed the space plane into view, with the pumping music and saturating blue lights giving the hangar here at the Mojave Air & Space Port a dance-club vibe? Or what about the revelation of the vehicle's name, VSS (for Virgin Spaceship) Unity, which came at the end of a 4-minute recorded message from astrophysicist and spaceflight enthusiast Stephen Hawking, who hopes to ride the spacecraft one day? [Photos: Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity Rolls Out]