Virgin Galactic says completed fifth successful human spaceflight in five months

Virgin Galactic announced the completion of its fifth successful human space mission in five months, “Galactic 04.” Michael Colglazier, CEO of Virgin Galactic, said: “Our teams in New Mexico and California have delivered on our monthly spaceflight objectives. Three new astronauts journeyed to space today and brought back incredible memories and stories of their experience above the Earth. These early missions with our initial ship, VSS Unity, have informed and confirmed the design and maintenance objectives for our Delta class spaceships, and the production tooling for those ships is on track to commence later in the fourth quarter.” The company says it will now proceed with post-flight inspections and analysis in preparation for the next commercial space mission, “Galactic 05.”