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Galactic 05's mission patch includes a legacy logo from SwRI, five stars, a stylized VG Unity spacecraft, and the names of Alan Stern and Dr. Dan Durda as mission investigators.
Alan Stern and his crewmates will conduct further mission simulations with their research gear in the Unity cabin trainer on L-2 day.
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.
The goal of the Integrated Mission Delta concept is to foster unity of command for readiness while streamlining unity of effort for capability development.
Alan Stern is scheduled to launch aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on a suborbital spaceflight next week.
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.
Virgin Galactic scheduled the VSS Unity Galactic 05 suborbital flight for a window that opens 2023-11-02, from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
The 2023-10-06 flight was the fourth flight for VSS Unity since Virgin Galactic started commercial service in late 2023-06-01.
VSS Unity reached an apogee of 87.5 km on the 2023-10-06 flight.
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.
VSS Unity released from VMS Eve at 12:10 p.m. Eastern on 2023-10-06.
Timothy Nash flew to the edge of space on September 8 in Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft, VSS Unity.
Virgin Galactic's latest flight of the VSS Unity spaceplane, Galactic 03, took place on September 8.
VSS Unity and VMS Eve took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico at 10:34 a.m. Eastern on 2023-09-08.
VSS Unity separated from VMS Eve and reached a peak altitude of 88.6 km during the Galactic 03 flight.
VSS Unity glided back to a runway landing at Spaceport America at 11:36 a.m. Eastern on 2023-09-08.
The pilots for 'Galactic 03' are VSS Unity Commander Nicola Pecile and VSS Unity Pilot Michael Masucci, with Astronaut Instructor Colin Bennett.
VSS Unity glided back to Spaceport America and landed at 11:32 a.m. Eastern on 2023-08-10.
Virgin Galactic estimated near-term per-flight revenue of about $600,000 when flying three paying customers and one employee in Unity’s cabin.