SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 01

SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 01

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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 01

Research mission for the Italian Air Force, first commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

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VSS Unity


Serial N202VG

Launch Crew Count 6

Status Retired

Landing Time 2023-06-29T15:42:31+0000


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Crew

Michael Masucci

Commander

Nationality American

Date Of Birth

Status Active

Type Private


Nicola Pecile

Pilot

Nationality Italian

Date Of Birth 1973-03-11

Status Active

Type Private


Colin Bennett

Instructor

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1985-01-01

Status Active

Type Private


Angelo Landolfi

Passenger

Nationality Italian

Date Of Birth

Status Active

Type Government


Pantaleone Carlucci

Passenger

Nationality Italian

Date Of Birth

Status Active

Type Government


Walter Villadei

Passenger

Nationality Italian

Date Of Birth 1974-04-29

Status Active

Type Government


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

2023-06-29T15:45:09+0000

Successful flight and landing of VSS Unity

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Nosu

2023-06-29T15:30:12+0000

Release of VSS Unity

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Nosu

2023-06-29T15:22:56+0000

Setting T-0 to estimated drop time

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Nosu

2023-06-29T15:08:01+0000

Pushing T-0 to account for the delayed livestream start

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LL2

2023-06-29T14:52:10+0000

Livestream has started

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Nosu

2023-06-29T14:41:25+0000

VSS Unity is airborne, release targeted shortly after the webcast start at 15:00 UTC.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-06-26T13:03:15+0000

Fixed time zone error; added video link.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-06-26T13:01:56+0000

Updated launch date and time.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-06-23T02:59:22+0000

NET June 29.

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Nosu

2023-06-15T20:15:18+0000

Targeting NET June 27 for the first Virgin Galactic commercial mission.

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