Virgin Galactic completed its first spaceflight of 2024 and 11th mission to date, successfully last Friday . The latest mission comes as Richard Branson’s space venture confirmed its Delta-class space vehicle won’t begin test flights until early 2025 and their commercial services won’t begin until a year later.
‘Galactic 06’ flight marked the first time Virgin Galactic had all four seats aboard its spacecraft, VSS Unity, occupied by private paying astronauts.
The identities of the passengers were held back until post-spaceflight, and they Astronauts included:
- Astronaut 023 – Lina Borozdina, Ukraine and Nevada, US
- Astronaut 024 – Robie Vaughn, Texas, US
- Astronaut 025 – Franz Haider, Austria
- Astronaut 026 – Neil Kornswiet, California, US
