October 20, 2021
New timeline for first paying passenger space flights
Virgin Galactic has pushed back the expected launch date of commercial spaceflights until Q4 2022. The aerospace company had most recently had its hopes pinned on a Q3 2022 start.
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Commercial spaceflights now projected to begin Q3 2022
Seats aboard Richard Branson’s spaceship have reopened for sale in the past week, skyrocketing in price.
Read More…August 1, 2018
VSS Unity tops Mach 2.4 into the “Ignorosphere”
Virgin Galactic test pilots broke Mach 2 late last week, as VSS Unity took her third rocket-powered supersonic outing in less than four months. After a clean release from carrier aircraft VMS Eve at 14,173 metres, pilots Dave Mackay and Mike “Sooch” Masucci lit the spaceship’s rocket motor, before pulling up into a near vertical climb and powering towards the black sky at 2.47 times the speed of sound.
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