Virgin Galactic’s 'future astronauts' will be in the hands of an elite Canadian test pilot
Aaron HutchinsJanjua in front of the VSS Imagine, in Mojave, California, at the Virgin Galactic facility
Fully 600 paying customers have lined up to ride Virgin’s odd-looking launching system—basically, two airplanes yoked together, with a “suborbital spaceship” perched in the middle. At an altitude of 15 km, the rocket-powered spaceship launches from the carrier craft and climbs to 85 km above sea level, where it drifts for a few minutes before re-entering the stratosphere and gliding back to ground.
He returned to watch another launch in early 2019, and when a job opening appeared the following year to join Virgin Galactic Pilot Corps, Janjua applied.
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