The total journey time is 90 minutes, with passengers experiencing a few minutes of weightlessness in the space plane’s cabin. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - Space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced Monday that it is resuming flights with a mission this month, its first in nearly two years, and the launch of commercial trips in June.
“Unity 25 is the final assessment of the full spaceflight system and astronaut experience before commercial service opens in late June,” Virgin Galactic said in a statement.Unlike other companies that use vertical-launch rockets, Virgin Galactic uses a carrier aircraft that takes off from a runway, gains high altitude, and drops a rocket-powered plane that soars into space before gliding back to Earth.
The Virgin Galactic space program has suffered years of delays and a 2014 accident in which a pilot died.
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