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in southern New Mexico at 10:31 a.m. EDT on June 8. The suborbital flight carried a Turkish researcher and three private astronauts to an altitude of 44,562 feet before the plane dropped and ignited its rocket engine to carry the four passengers and two pilots to space and back.Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane fires its rocket engine to launch two pilots and four passengers to suborbital space and back on the Galactic 07 mission on June 8, 2024.
Unity's final flight attracted the largest crowd since the launch of Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed suborbital spaceflight in 2021,, officials said in the video. The crowd cheered and applauded as the spaceplane lifted off and then glided to a landing back at the spaceport approximately one hour later, at 11:41 a.m. EDT .
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