Launch Detail
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Launch detail
Virgin Galactic • SpaceShipTwo • Spaceport America (NA)
Virgin Galactic • SpaceShipTwo • Spaceport America
Powered flight of VSS Unity on the first fully crewed flight. Including the founder Sir Richard Branson.
Stream links and embedded coverage.
Open the launch pad in Google Maps satellite mode using the pad coordinates.
Powered flight of VSS Unity on the first fully crewed flight. Including the founder Sir Richard Branson.
The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by 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.
Provider, rocket, pad, and booster history tied to this launch.
Linked via Spaceflight News API (SNAPI).
Article"Blue Origin already won the suborbital space tourism race on July 20, 2021."
ArticleThe Federal Aviation Administration will not allow Virgin Galactic to resume flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane until it completes an investig...
Article"The most misleading statement today was Virgin Galactic's."
ArticleAlso, an explanation of why Mark "Forger" Stucky left Virgin Galactic.
Article“I absolutely believe this is that moment."
ArticleVirgin Galactic and its founder, Richard Branson, hailed a successful test flight by the company’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane that carried him and fi...
Launch-stage and landing context surfaced from LL2 when it exists.
VSS Unity, previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It is the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and will be used as part of the Virgin Galactic fleet.
VSS Unity successfully landed back at Spaceport America after this flight.
