Today's mission was Virgin Galactic's first trip to space in nearly two years.
Unity came back to Earth at 12:37 p.m. EDT , touching down on a runway at Spaceport America. Eve followed'Kicking the tires' on upgraded vehiclesmaintain and upgrade the vehicles
"The old design was strong enough and it had enough capability," Moses said of the pylon."But it didn't have a lot of extra capability."That being said, the company was already quite confident in both vehicles, which had proven themselves on four previous spaceflights going into today's flight. Virgin Galactic didn't need to prove out a certain level of hardware performance during Unity 25, Moses said.
Virgin Galactic did want to vet its astronaut-training practices a bit, however, which explains why Huie and Gilbert made the trip today along with astronaut trainers Mays and Beth Moses.
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