Virgin Galactic has confirmed plans to launch its next spaceflight, ‘Galactic 06’, on or around 26 January 2024. The upcoming spaceflight comes after the listed company successfully operated six suborbital flights in six months this year, the latest being in early November which carried three customers, only one of which was a private astronaut.

Virgin Galactic’s first fully crewed space flight on Sunday (US time) grabbed the media spotlight in the past week, but rival commercial space tourism enterprise Blue Origin will have bragging rights of its own next week.