, Virgin Galactic has a backlog of bookings for upcoming spaceflight and it has charged between $250,000 and $450,000 per seat.Virgin Galactic's first commercial flight comes shortly after the disaster of, which has drawn global attention and criticism for a company that charged a similar amount of money to take tourists to a similarly harsh environment.
However, Virgin Galactic's first commercial flight was, in fact, a research mission chartered by the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council of Italy. While OceanGate decided to forego certification, Virgin Galactic alsot about the Galactic 01, VSS Unity was essentially "transformed into a suborbital science lab to provide the environment for rack-mounted payloads and for the crew to interact with wearable payloads.
A total of 13 experiments, both autonomous and manual, were conducted during the roughly 90-minute flight. These included experiments designed to investigate space motion sickness as well as cell culture performance in suborbital flight.Virgin Galactic 01 touched down roughly 40 minutes after takeoff, drawing a successful first commercial flight to a close for Sir Richard Branson's space tourism company.
The successful mission is a massive step for a company whose only real competitor, Blue Origin, is currently grounded after an anomaly led to a capsule abort during a
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