Virgin Galactic, founded by Richard Branson, is a British-American spaceflight company focused on providing suborbital spaceflights to space tourists and researchers. As the world's first commercial spaceline, it develops and operates its own reusable spaceflight systems, including the SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo. While the company is shifting its focus to Delta class vehicles for commercial service in 2026, its current partners include Redwire for manufacturing research payload lockers and it operates from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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Alan Stern plans to take a second Virgin Galactic space flight next year.
Alan Stern flew on a research and training mission with Virgin Galactic last week.
Virgin Galactic completed its sixth and final suborbital spaceflight of 2023 on 2023-11-02 carrying two researchers and a private astronaut.
Kellie Gerardi supports the position that Virgin Galactic is responsible for producing 10% of the world’s female astronauts.
Virgin Galactic completed its sixth and final suborbital spaceflight of the year on 2023-11-02.
Alan Stern will fly on Virgin Galactic’s Unity spacecraft on Thursday for his rookie spaceflight.
Galactic 05 is the fifth commercial suborbital revenue mission for Virgin Galactic.
Virgin Galactic's Galactic 05 suborbital mission is scheduled for November 2.
On Sunday, October 29, the focus will be on final payload preparations and a first tour and practice of flight operations inside Virgin Galactic’s Unity trainer.
Six high-G runs significantly exceed the Virgin Galactic suborbital launch and entry profiles.
Spaceport America is Virgin Galactic’s operations base for commercial suborbital missions.
Alan Stern will launch into space on a suborbital research and training mission aboard Virgin Galactic.
New generation suborbital rocket systems like those from Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin will allow research flights 10 to 100 times more frequently and at significantly lower costs than older systems.
Virgin Galactic offered its first tourist flights to the edge of space in the third quarter of 2023.
Training will also include in-cabin ascent, entry procedures, and timeline procedures runs in a high-fidelity cabin mockup of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity.
Alan Stern is scheduled to launch aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on a suborbital spaceflight next week.
Virgin Galactic’s Galactic 05 flight window will open on 2023-11-02.
Sirisha Bandla, vice president of government affairs and research at Virgin Galactic, stated that the extension would allow the industry to determine safety regulations.
The International Institute for Astronautical Sciences signed an agreement with Virgin Galactic in 2021 to fly Kellie Gerardi.
Virgin Galactic scheduled the VSS Unity Galactic 05 suborbital flight for a window that opens 2023-11-02, from Spaceport America in New Mexico.