Sina Science and Technology News on the evening of September 2, Beijing time, it is reported that the space travel companyVirgin Galaxy(Virgin Galactic Holdings) announced today that it will work with the Italian Air Force (Italian Air Force) to launch its first commercial research mission, "Unity 23."
The "Unity 23" mission will be Virgin Galactic.The 23rd flight of the VSS Unity space plane will carry three paid crew members from the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council (NRC). The goal of this mission is to assess and measure the impact of the transition from gravity to microgravity on the human body.
Other payloads on the shuttle will study the effects of microgravity on a range of chemical and physical properties. The mission aims to gain insights related to current and future space systems and technologies by testing and evaluating physiological and technical responses in suborbital flights.
The flight window for this mission is late September or early October this year, and the exact date depends on technical inspections and weather conditions. Virgin Galactic will broadcast the mission live through the company's website virgingalactic.com.
In July, Virgin Galactic 70-year-old founder Richard Branson (Richard Branson) took a VSS Unity space plane from the Spaceport America spaceport in New Mexico, flew into space, and successfully returned.
Virgin Galactic is expected to offer commercial space tours as early as 2022. As of July, Virgin Galactic had attracted more than 700 paying passengers, each paying about $250000 each, waiting to fly into space on Virgin Galactic's spaceship.
