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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.
VSS Unity
Serial N202VG
Launch Crew Count 6
Status Retired
Landing Time 2024-01-26T17:56:00+0000
Crew
Frederick W. Sturckow
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1961-08-11
Status Active
Type Private
Nicola Pecile
Pilot
Nationality Italian
Date Of Birth 1973-03-11
Status Active
Type Private
Franz Haider
Passenger
Nationality American Austrian
Date Of Birth
Status Occasional Spaceflight
Type Unknown
Lina Borozdina
Passenger
Nationality Ukrainian
Date Of Birth
Status Occasional Spaceflight
Type Private
Neil Kornswiet
Passenger
Nationality American
Date Of Birth
Status Occasional Spaceflight
Type Private
Robie Vaughn
Passenger
Nationality American
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
Updates
SwGustav
2024-01-27T00:58:06+0000
T-0 accurate to the second
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-01-26T18:08:59+0000
SpaceShipTwo has landed.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-01-26T18:01:37+0000
SpaceShipTwo has been released.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-01-26T13:53:16+0000
New take-off time.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-01-24T01:41:11+0000
Added launch window.
Nosu
2023-12-19T21:36:26+0000
Targeting January 26
hitura-nobad
2023-10-19T18:12:08+0000
Added launch NET January
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2024-01-26T23:08:20+0000
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Virgin Galactic launches four private astronauts as it prepares to end Unity flights
2023-11-08T22:10:20+0000
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