Galactic 05 was Virgin Galactic’s second space-research mission this year
Shares of Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. climbed 11.4% Thursday as the company’s Galactic 05 research mission reached space.
The mission’s crew includes American Dr. Alan Stern, planetary scientist and associate vice president of the Southwest Research Institute’s Space Sector, and American Kellie Gerardi, payload specialist and bioastronautics researcher for the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences . The two researchers conducted human-tended research during the suborbital spaceflight.
Last month Virgin Galactic completed its Galactic 04 mission, which carried private astronauts from the U.S., the U.K. and Pakistan to space. The company made its first private astronaut spaceflight on Aug. 10, when the Galactic 02 mission took the second-youngest person ever into space and the first mother-daughter duo.
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