25-05-2023 17:50 via krqe.com

Virgin Galactic's Unity 25 spaceflight takes off from New Mexico's Spaceport

SPACEPORT AMERICA, N.M. (KRQE) – Virgin Galactic is underway with its plan to send another crew of six people to suborbital space over New Mexico Thursday. On Twitter, the company announced takeoff at 9:17 a.m. this morning from Spaceport America with an aircraft carrying the VSS (Virgin Spaceship) Unity into the skies.
The process is expected to take over an hour from takeoff to landing. The spaceflight will mark the first time Virgin Galactic has flown passengers to weightlessness over N
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