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Jul 11, 2021 · Virgin Galactic has announced its spaceship VSS Unity successfully reached space. This was the spaceline’s fourth spaceflight and first test flight with a full crew in the cabin, including Virgin Group founder, Sir Richard Branson.
May 25, 2023 · The company’s space plane, VSS Unity, carried two pilots and a crew of four Virgin Galactic employees on the Thursday test flight, which took off from a runway in New Mexico around 11:15 a.m. ET ...
Jul 11, 2021 · The company’s first space plane, the V.S.S. Enterprise, crashed during a test flight in 2014 when the co-pilot moved a lever too early during the flight, allowing the tail booms to rotate when ...
May 26, 2023 · Virgin Galactic has completed a final test flight before taking paying customers on brief trips to space. Six of the company's employees landed Thursday morning at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico after a flight that included a few minutes of weightlessness. The flight came nearly two years after founder Richard Branson beat fellow billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to space ...
Jul 1, 2021 · Virgin Galactic has announced that the flight window for the next rocket-powered test flight of its SpaceShipTwo Unity opens July 11, pending weather and technical checks. The “Unity 22” mission will be the 22nd flight test for VSS Unity, and Virgin Galactic’s fourth crewed spaceflight. It will also be the first to carry a full crew of ...
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May 25, 2023 · Virgin Galactic is gearing up for a big mission on Thursday (May 25) — its final test flight to suborbital space before starting commercial service. Virgin Galactic will send six people toward ...
Jul 11, 2021 · The “Unity 22” mission is the twenty-second flight test for VSS Unity and Virgin Galactic’s fourth crewed spaceflight. It is also the first to carry a full crew of two pilots and four mission specialists in the cabin, including Virgin Group Founder Richard Branson, who is testing the private astronaut experience.
