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View Virgin Galactic Next Test Flight Gif. The flight window will open on february 13 with opportunities to fly throughout february, pending good weather conditions and technical readiness. Virgin galactic says it still has three more test flights to conduct, including the one on sunday, before it can be ready for paying passengers.

The virgin galactic space plane unity landed safely in new mexico on sunday morning after a trip meant to make human spaceflight seem unexceptional.

Employees pulled off a key test flight to space, bolstering the company's plans to debut tourism trips next year. Austin, texas (cnn business) virgin galactic's supersonic rocket plane was scheduled to fire into the upper atmosphere saturday, but after climbing more than 40,000 feet over new mexico attached to its mothership, the space plane made an unexpected turn toward home rather than shooting skyward. Branson's virgin galactic, which is aiming to develop space tourism, will carry its founder on what will be the 22nd flight test for the company's spaceplane vss unity will take flight from virgin atlantic's base at spaceport america in new mexico. The test flight comes just nine days before the first crewed flight of blue origin's new shepard capsule.