Virgin Galactic conducts first space tourist suborbital flight

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Virgin Galactic conducts first space tourist suborbital flight

Virgin Galactic conducts first space tourist suborbital flight

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Published 10 Aug 2023

LOGAN, Utah — Virgin Galactic took its first private astronaut customers on a suborbital spaceflight Aug. 10, nearly two decades after it started selling tickets. Virgin’s VSS Unity spaceplane, attached to its VMS Eve mothership aircraft, took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico at…

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