Unity 227/30/2023 The spaceflight should take place shortly after 7:00 am Mountain Time (1300 GMT), with a livestream provided by Virgin Galactic on its website. Two veteran pilots to helm the launch are Dave Mackay and Michael Masucci. The other specialists, all of them company employees, include lead operations engineer Colin Bennett and chief astronaut instructor Beth Moses. She will evaluate the human-tended research experience. Among the other passengers is India-born Sirisha Bandla, vice president of government affairs and research operations at Virgin Galactic. Branson’s official role will be to evaluate the private astronaut experience to enhance the journey for future clients. Although the spacecraft is designed to take as many as eight people (two pilots and six passengers), only six people will be on board the Unity 22 flight. For the first time, the crew will include four passengers or mission specialists other than two pilots as the nascent space tourism industry gets off the ground.Īlso Read | Richard Branson, British billionaire, set to blast off on Virgin Galactic spaceflight While this will be the 22nd mission for VSS Unity, it is Virgin Galactic’s fourth crewed spaceflight. The basic aim of the mission is to serve as a test flight for future passenger flights by Virgin Galactic. Here’s all you need to know about mission Unity 22. (REUTERS)įlying to the edge of space, the team will take off on VSS Unity - a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered spaceplane - from the company’s Spaceport America in New Mexico. Sir Richard Branson poses on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) ahead of Virgin Galactic (SPCE) trading in New York, US. Besides Branson, three crewmates and two pilots will be carried into launch position by a massive carrier plane of Virgin Galactic, VMS Eve. Virgin Galactic spaceship Unity 22 is all set to make history as it takes off with a few passengers, including the company’s billionaire founder Richard Branson, onboard.
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