Branson gets it up edition

stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTpWYWIfP7Y
stream start: Sunday, July 11, 7:30 AM PT / 10:30 AM ET / 3:30 PM BST

Spaceplane: SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity
Carrier aircraft: VMS Eve
Takeoff and landing site: Spaceport America, New Mexico, USA
Maximum altitude: 50 miles (80 km) (achieved 50 minutes after release from VMS Eve at 50,000 feet)
Weightless period: "several minutes"

VSS Unity Pilots:
>Dave Mackay
>Michael Masucci
VMS Eve Pilots:
>CJ Sturckow
>Kelly Latimer
VSS Unity Crew:
>Beth Moses, Chief Astronaut Instructor at Virgin Galactic. Moses will serve as cabin lead and test director in space, overseeing the safe and efficient execution of the test flight objectives.
>Colin Bennett, Lead Operations Engineer at Virgin Galactic. Bennett will evaluate cabin equipment, procedures, and experience during both the boost phase and in the weightless environment.
>Sirisha Bandla, Vice President of Government Affairs and Research Operations at Virgin Galactic. Bandla will be evaluating the human-tended research experience, using an experiment from the University of Florida that requires several handheld fixation tubes that will be activated at various points in the flight profile.
>Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic. Branson will evaluate the private astronaut experience and will undergo the same training, preparation and flight as Virgin Galactic’s future astronauts. The Company will use his observations from his flight training and spaceflight experience to enhance the journey for all future astronaut customers.

NASA payload: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-carries-nasa-supported-experiment.html


This will be the 4th crewed spaceflight* for Virgin Galactic, and the 22nd flight for VSS Unity.