Virgin Galactic is targeting a morning flight window beginning 10 am Eastern time.
The company's Unity 25 mission from Spaceport America, New Mexico, comes 22 months after billionaire Branson and other Virgin Galactic employees rode to the edge of space aboard the company's centerpiece SpaceShipTwo spaceplane. That was a high-profile mission it hoped would open the door to routine flights soon after.
Virgin Galactic is now targeting a morning flight window beginning 10 a.m. Eastern time. The twin-fuselage carrier plane, named VSS Eve, will take off from a runway at the New Mexico site carrying the suborbital SpaceShipTwo, named VSS Unity. Virgin Galactic pilots Jameel Janjua and Nicola Pecile will fly the carrier aircraft VMS Eve and drop the spaceplane when it reaches around 50,000 feet in altitude. The spacecraft, once untethered, will ignite a rocket engine and climb to an altitude in microgravity of roughly 50 miles, the U.S.-recognized boundary of Earth's atmosphere.
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