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Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic is launching a new space age, where all are invited along for the ride.

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Tourism

Suborbital Spaceport America Air launch to Suborbital flight

Second commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

Updates

Nosu • Aug. 10, 2023, 3:38 p.m.

Successful flight and landing of VSS Unity


Nosu • Aug. 10, 2023, 3:22 p.m.

Release of VSS Unity


Nosu • Aug. 10, 2023, 3:16 p.m.

Adjusting T-0


Nosu • Aug. 10, 2023, 3:06 p.m.

Updating drop time per countdown on stream


LL2 • Aug. 10, 2023, 2:52 p.m.

Livestream has started


SpaceShipTwo

Family:
Configuration:

The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    18.0 m
  • Diameter
    8.2 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    9.0 T
  • Thrust
    310.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    SpaceShipTwo
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    SpaceShipTwo
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

VSS Unity


Active Human Rated Crew On-board: 6 Crew Capacity: 8
Destination: Suborbital
Serial Number: N202VG

VSS Unity, previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It is the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and will be used as part of the Virgin Galactic fleet.

SpaceShipTwo Details

Crew


Frederick W. Sturckow

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: Aug. 11, 1961
Age: 64

Kelly Latimer

Pilot - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Beth Moses

Instructor - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: May 30, 1980
Age: 45

Anastatia Mayers

Passenger - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Jon Goodwin

Passenger - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: June 19, 1943
Age: 82

Keisha Schahaff

Passenger - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic

(VG)

Founder: Richard Branson Founded: 2004 Successes: 62 Failures: 5 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.

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