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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.
Virgin Galactic plans Galactic 06 for January 2024 to allow time for routine, planned annual vehicle inspections.
Virgin Galactic operates the VMS Eve mothership aircraft and the SpaceShipTwo Unity spaceplane to provide suborbital spaceflights for private astronaut customers from Spaceport America.
Virgin Galactic completed its fifth successful human space mission in five months with Galactic 04.
The 2023-10-06 flight was the fourth flight for VSS Unity since Virgin Galactic started commercial service in late 2023-06-01.
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. completed its fifth successful human space mission in five months on 2023-10-05 with the mission named Galactic 04.
Virgin Galactic did not provide a live broadcast for the 2023-10-06 flight and instead posted social media updates on a time delay.
Treavor Beattie is a British advertising executive and film producer who accompanied Richard Branson to a SpaceShipOne flight in 2004 and signed up for a Virgin Galactic flight on the spot.
A Virgin Galactic social media post announcing ignition of VSS Unity’s hybrid rocket motor on 2023-10-06 was published at least 12 minutes after ignition based on timestamps in the images included with the post.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo vehicle VSS Unity took off from Spaceport America attached to its VMS Eve mothership at 11:28 a.m. Eastern on 2023-10-06.
Virgin Orbit established the Long Beach facility when it was still a division of Virgin Galactic.
Timothy Nash flew to the edge of space on September 8 in Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft, VSS Unity.
Virgin Galactic began operating tourist flights in earnest in the summer of 2023.
Virgin Galactic did not provide a live webcast of the Galactic 03 flight.
Virgin Galactic is currently flying only once a month, which is unlikely to change until its new Delta class of suborbital spaceplanes enter service around 2026.