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: Project Kuiper Protoflight and Galactic 04 highlight this week
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Launch Roundup: Russia returns to the Moon with Luna 25 mission, Virgin Galactic completes first fully private space tourism flight
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Launch Roundup: Virgin Galactic performs crewed suborbital mission; SpaceX launches Euclid
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After a nearly two-year pause in flights, starting after a deviation from controlled airspace during…
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Reviewing the week in spaceflight and upcoming events, it’s been another busy period, including NASA…
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With Blue Origin passengers set, suborbital tourism arrives after decades of work
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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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Preparing for “Earth to Earth” space travel and a competition with supersonic airliners
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VSS Unity aborts after engine start, safely lands with crew back at Spaceport America
Virgin Galactic was to perform their first human spaceflight of their VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo vehicle…
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A Space Act Agreement (SAA) between NASA, Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company (TSC) has…
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Carried by her mothership VMS Eve, Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity has arrived at Spaceport America…
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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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Virgin Galatic took another step closer to realizing its long-fought dream of carrying paying customers…
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Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity conducted her second powered test flight on Tuesday, taking another step…
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has moved into powered flight testing. The test comes early in the…
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Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne has signed an agreement to launch a SITAEL satellite developed in collaboration…
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While Virgin Galactic prepare to restart test operations with its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, the company has…