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Virgin Galactic made its fourth commercial flight into space

  • October 6, 2023
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Virgin Galactic has completed its fourth commercial flight, sending four passengers into suborbital space and bringing them back to Earth. As reported by Ukrinform, Space.com. On Friday, October

Virgin Galactic made its fourth commercial flight into space

Virgin Galactic made its fourth commercial flight into space

Virgin Galactic has completed its fourth commercial flight, sending four passengers into suborbital space and bringing them back to Earth.

As reported by Ukrinform, Space.com.

On Friday, October 6, at 19.24 Kiev time, the VSS Unity carrier aircraft launched VMS Eve into suborbital space at an altitude of approximately 13,700 meters.

At VMS Eve were Namira Salim, founder and president of the non-profit organization Space Trust, British advertising executive Trevor Beatty, American astronomy teacher Ron Rosano and Virgin Galactic’s chief astronaut instructor Beth Moses.

Their flight ended at 19:43 with VSS Unity finally landing at Spaceport America in New Mexico, USA.

As the name of the Galactic 04 mission suggests, this was Virgin Galactic’s fourth commercial space flight.

As Ukrinform reported, at the end of June this year the company Virgin Galactic made its first commercial flightIt sends four passengers into suborbital space and returns them to Earth.

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Source: Ukrinform

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