For only the second time, VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic’s suborbital space plane, was transformed into a science laboratory. Galactic 05 successfully completed its mission on Nov. 2, but for Kellie Gerardi, Galactic 05 crewmember and Virgin Galactic Astronaut 021, the training and preparation for the flight goes back almost a decade. She sat down with NSF to detail what it takes to conduct commercial suborbital research.
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Launch Roundup: Russia returns to the Moon with Luna 25 mission, Virgin Galactic completes first fully private space tourism flight
It’s a busy week in spaceflight, especially for Russia. The week of Aug. 7 following…
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Launch Roundup: Virgin Galactic performs crewed suborbital mission; SpaceX launches Euclid
Four launches are planned for the week of June 24 to July 1. The Russians…
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Seventeen years after Sir Richard Branson watched SpaceShipOne win the Ansari X-Prize, the English entrepreneur…
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Virgin Galactic has successfully performed the first human spaceflight from Spaceport America, just south of…
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A Space Act Agreement (SAA) between NASA, Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company (TSC) has…
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Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company have announced new milestones in the assembly of the…
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In a major sign Virgin Galactic is close to flying paying customers on its SpaceShipTwo…
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While Virgin Galactic prepare to restart test operations with its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, the company has…
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Virgin Galactic – part of the Virgin corporation headed by Sir Richard Branson – has…
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Due to customer demand, Virgin Galactic claims it has nearly doubled the amount of payload…
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One pilot has died and another seriously injured during a test flight failure of Virgin…
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Space Shuttle veteran Frederick “CJ” Sturckow has joined Virgin Galactic’s commercial flight team. The retired…
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More details about Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipTwo – VSS Enterprise – have been revealed to the…
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British billionaire tycoon Sir Richard Branson has stated that his space travel company, Virgin Galactic,…
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Launch Roundup: Project Kuiper Protoflight and Galactic 04 highlight this week
United Launch Alliance (ULA) flew only its second Atlas V of 2023, as Amazon’s subsidiary…
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Virgin Orbit attempted to carry out the first satellite launch from the United Kingdom on…
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Virgin Orbit launched its fifth flight of the LauncherOne rocket, after scrubbing an attempt on…
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Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne and its 747 carrier aircraft “Cosmic Girl” have launched the US Defense…
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China’s Galactic Energy launches second Ceres-1 rocket successfully
The Chinese private spaceflight company Galactic Energy has made the second flight of its Ceres-1…