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Virgin Galactic Holdings successfully operated its fifth space mission in five months, ‘Galactic 04′, last Friday from Spaceport America.The three new Astronauts aboard Galactic 04 included nationals from the US and UK, and the first person from Pakistan to fly into space.“Our teams in New Mexico and California have delivered on our monthly spaceflight objectives,” said Michael Colglazier, CEO of Virgin Galactic. “Three new astronauts journeyed to space and brought back incredible memories and stories of their experience above the Earth.”
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Colglazier added, “These early missions with our initial ship, VSS Unity, have informed and confirmed the design and maintenance objectives for our Delta class spaceships, and the production tooling for those ships is on track to commence later in the fourth quarter”.Astronaut 019 Namira Salim from Pakistan, is also a resident of the United Arab Emirates and of Monaco.Virgin Galactic hasn’t specified a date yet for its next commercial space mission, ‘Galactic 05’.
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