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Galactic 04

SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic

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Crew

Kelly Latimer

Kelly Latimer

Status: Active
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 8/10/2023
Last Flight: 8/10/2023

Pilot working for Virgin Galactic. First Spaceflight during the Galactic-02 Mission.

Frederick W. Sturckow

Frederick W. Sturckow

Status: Active
8/11/1961 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 12/4/1998
Last Flight: 8/10/2023

Frederick Wilford "Rick" Sturckow is an Engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former NASA astronaut, and commercial spacecraft pilot. Sturckow is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. He flew on STS-88 and STS-105 as a pilot and STS-117 and STS-128 as a commander. All four missions docked with the International Space Station, making Sturckow one of two people to visit the station four times. Sturckow later was assigned to the Johnson Space Center as a CAPCOM. He left NASA in 2013 to become a pilot for Virgin Galactic.

Beth Moses

Beth Moses

Status: Active
5/30/1980 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 2/22/2019
Last Flight: 8/10/2023

Beth Moses is Chief Astronaut Instructor and Interiors Program Manager for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo program, and is a commercial astronaut. She was the first woman to make a spaceflight on a commercially launched vehicle, the VSS Unity VF-01 flight of 22 February 2019.

VG Astronaut 017

Status: Occasional Spaceflight
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Nationality: United States
Type: Private

Passenger on Galactic 04

VG Astronaut 018

Status: Occasional Spaceflight
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Nationality: United Kingdom
Type: Private

Passenger on Galactic 04

VG Astronaut 019

Status: Occasional Spaceflight
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Nationality: Pakistan
Type: Private

Passenger on Galactic 04

Mission

Galactic 04

Type: Tourism

Fourth commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

Trajectory

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Mission patch for Galactic 04

Location

Spaceport America

Air launch to Suborbital flight

82 rockets have launched from Air launch to Suborbital flight.

Spaceport America, Air launch to Suborbital flight

Agency

Virgin Galactic – VG

  • Type: Private
  • Abbreviation: VG
  • Administration: Founder: Richard Branson
  • Founded: 2004
  • Launchers: VMS Eve
  • Spacecraft: VSS Enterprise | VSS Unity
  • Country: USA

Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.

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