The 'Galactic 03' mission was a success.
"Welcome back to Earth, #Galactic03! Our pilots, crew and spaceship have landed safely at @Spaceport_NM," the companyVirgin Galactic 03 reaches suborbital space on Sept. 8, 2023.'s VSS Unity space plane lifted off beneath the wings its carrier craft, VMS Eve. Eve dropped Unity at an altitude of about 50,000 feet as planned, and the space plane then made its own way to the final frontier.
Aboard Unity were the three paying customers, who were among the first people to buy a ticket to fly with the company. They booked their seats as early as 2005, Virgin Galactic said in a preflight statement. The passengers were investor Ken Baxter from the United States, the first person to buy a civilian ticket for a Virgin Galactic tourist flight. Alongside Baxter were Timothy Nash, an investor from South Africa, and Adrian Reynard, founder of Reynard Motorsport, from the United Kingdom.
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