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Virgin Galactic’s Galactic 03 flight window opens Friday, Sept. 8, continuing a monthly cadence of spaceflights. This would be the Company’s fourth spaceflight in four months.
The Galactic 03 crew bought tickets for a commercial space flight as early as 2005 and, since then, have been an active part of the company’s future astronaut community, consisting of approximately 800 individuals representing more than 60 different countries.
The pilots for Galactic 03 are VSS Unity Commander Nicola Pecile, and VSS Unity Pilot Michael Masucci; the astronaut instructor is Colin Bennett.
In the past 12 weeks, Virgin Galactic has introduced 11 new astronauts to the world. For the Galactic 03 spaceflight, the customers on board will be Virgin Galactic astronauts 014, 015 and 016.
