SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 02

SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 02

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Virgin Galactic

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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Galactic 02

Second commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

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VSS Unity


Serial N202VG

Launch Crew Count 6

Status Retired

Landing Time 2023-08-10T15:33:02+0000


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Crew

Frederick W. Sturckow

Commander

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1961-08-11

Status Active

Type Private


Kelly Latimer

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth

Status Active

Type Private


Beth Moses

Instructor

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1980-05-30

Status Active

Type Private


Anastatia Mayers

Passenger

Nationality Antiguan

Date Of Birth

Status Occasional Spaceflight

Type Private


Jon Goodwin

Passenger

Nationality British

Date Of Birth 1943-06-19

Status Occasional Spaceflight

Type Private


Keisha Schahaff

Passenger

Nationality Antiguan

Date Of Birth

Status Occasional Spaceflight

Type Private


SpaceShipTwo


Height 18.00 Meters

Max Stages 1

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 310 kN

Diameter 8.20 Meters

Mass To LEO 0 kg

Liftoff Mass 9 Tonnes


Launch Success 62

Consecutive Success 11

Maiden Flight 2010-10-10

Launch Failures 5


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Updates

Nosu

2023-08-10T15:38:33+0000

Successful flight and landing of VSS Unity

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Nosu

2023-08-10T15:22:08+0000

Release of VSS Unity

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Nosu

2023-08-10T15:16:56+0000

Adjusting T-0

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Nosu

2023-08-10T15:06:19+0000

Updating drop time per countdown on stream

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LL2

2023-08-10T14:52:27+0000

Livestream has started

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Nosu

2023-08-10T11:58:56+0000

NET 15:00 UTC per livestream start time

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-08-04T08:07:15+0000

GO for launch.

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hitura-nobad

2023-07-26T09:54:50+0000

Updated T-0

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Nosu

2023-07-13T12:38:12+0000

Targeting August 10

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Nosu

2023-06-15T20:16:56+0000

Adding launch NET early August

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