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It was the second commercial spaceflight and seventh overall spaceflight for American aerospace company Virgin Galactic. The mission was the first to carry space tourists (people who are not working during the flight), as the previous flight, Galactic 01, carried astronauts from the Italian Air Force and the Italian National Research Council ...
Watch live as Virgin Galactic launches its second commercial space flight. An 80-year-old former Olympian with Parkinson’s disease will be one of three passengers on board the space tourism ...
Like Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin aims for the fringes of space, quick ups-and-downs from West Texas. Blue Origin has launched 31 people so far, but flights are on hold following a rocket crash ...
This week, live vicariously through Virgin Galactic’s first space tourists, encounter a mysterious human relative, discover a vanishing plant, and more. Virgin Galactic’s first space tourists ...
Virgin Galactic (at some point) planned to begin commercial spaceflight service in 2022; [202] [203] and said it was in the final phases of returning its suborbital spaceplane to commercial service in Feb 2022. [204] The first commercial flight took place on 29 June 2023 with three outside passengers (people not employed by Virgin Galactic). [205]
Virgin Galactic Unity 21 [1] was a sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity which took place on 22 May 2021, piloted by David Mackay and co-piloted by Frederick Sturckow. It was the first human spaceflight from the state of New Mexico . [ 2 ]
Virgin Galactic — the space tourism company Richard Branson founded — launched its first space tourism mission, a major step toward delivering on decades of promises.
Virgin Galactic Unity 25 was a sub-orbital spaceflight by Virgin Galactic that took place on 25 May 2023. The flight used their SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity. The crew consisted of six Virgin Galactic employees. Unity 25 was the first spaceflight for the company since Unity 22 in 2021, when founder Richard Branson flew to space. [1]