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VSS Unity (Virgin Space Ship Unity, registration: N202VG), previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a retired SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It was the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and was part of the Virgin Galactic fleet.
In August 2005, the president of Virgin Galactic stated that if the suborbital service with SpaceShipTwo would be successful, the follow-up SpaceShipThree would be an orbital craft. In 2008, Virgin Galactic suggested that it may develop a high-speed passenger vehicle to offer transport through point-to-point suborbital spaceflight. [124]
Following the disaster, the second SpaceShipTwo craft, VSS Unity, was completed in 2016, and began testing. In January 2015, Scaled Composites test pilot Mark "Forger" Stucky was hired by Virgin Galactic as a test pilot. [3] Stucky had been closely involved with the development of SpaceShipTwo during his tenure with Scaled.
Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two. Virgin Galactic's maiden spaceflight occurred in 2018 with its VSS Unity spaceship. [3] Branson had originally hoped to see a maiden spaceflight by 2010, [4] but the date was delayed, primarily due to the October 2014 crash of VSS ...
Jun. 6—It's almost time for VSS Unity to stand down. The spaceship's last commercial flight out of Spaceport America is Saturday. Then, it'll be all hands on deck for spaceflight company Virgin ...
That goal could be met within the next couple of years, when Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder, flies as a passenger on the first commercial flight of the VSS Unity. Virgin Galactic's VSS ...
Virgin Galactic Unity 22 was a sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity which launched on 11 July 2021. [1] The crew consisted of pilots David Mackay and Michael Masucci as well as passengers Sirisha Bandla , Colin Bennett, Beth Moses , and Richard Branson .
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity recently flew its second rocket-powered flight merely a couple of months after its first. That's definitely a victory for the company, considering it designed Unity to ...